American writer who lived two years in a cabin by Walden Pond and wrote 瓦尔登湖 (Walden) on simple living, widely read in China. His essay on civil disobedience influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
The name also turns up in 《美丽的梭罗河》, the Mandarin version of Bengawan Solo, an Indonesian song about Java's largest river, sung in Chinese since 1957. His essay Civil Disobedience is 《论公民的不服从》 in Chinese.
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梭 is a weaving shuttle and 罗 a light silk gauze, both picked for sound. 梭 is a sound loan in other words too, most usefully 梭哈, poker's 'show hand', now slang for going all in.
