WRITER

Bai Juyi

772 - 846

Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi (also Bo Juyi or Po Chü-i; Chinese: 白居易; 772–846), courtesy name Letian (樂天), was a Chinese musician, poet, and politician during the Tang dynasty. Many of his poems concern his career or observations made about everyday life, including as governor of three different provinces. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bai Juyi has received more than 263,901 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Bai Juyi is the 540th most popular writer (up from 611th in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from China (up from 164th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Chinese Writer.

Bai Juyi is most famous for his poetry. He was a poet and statesman during the Tang Dynasty.

Memorability Metrics

260k
Page Views (PV)
66.26
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
44
Languages Editions (L)
4.78
Effective Languages (L*)
3.55
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

A hundred and seventy Chinese poems

1923

Maeyŏ itchi anŭn pae chʻŏrŏm

2003

Pai Hsiang-shan chi

1968

Bai shi wen ji

1965

Po Chü-i

Poetry

The T'ang dynasty was the great age of Chinese poetry, and Po Chü-i (772--846) was one of that era's most prolific major poets. His appealing style, marked by deliberate simplicity, won him wide popularity among the Chinese public at large and made him a favorite with readers in Korea and Japan as well. From Po Chü-i's well-preserved corpus -- personally compiled and arranged by the poet himself in an edition of seventy-five chapters -- the esteemed translator Burton Watson has chosen 128 poems and one short prose piece that exemplify the earthy grace and deceptive simplicity of this master poet. For Po Chü-i, writing poetry was a way to expose the ills of society and an autobiographical medium to record daily activities, as well as a source of deep personal delight and satisfaction -- constituting, along with wine and song, one of the chief joys of existence. Whether exposing the gluttony of arrogant palace attendants during a famine; describing the delights of drunkenly chanting new poems under the autumn moon; depicting the peaceful equanimity that comes with old age; or marveling at cool Zen repose during a heat wave... these masterfully translated poems shine with a precisely crafted artlessness that conveys the subtle delights of Chinese poetry.

2000

Na ije hŭin kurŭm kwa tŏburŏ

2003

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bai Juyi ranks 540 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacob L. Moreno, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kazuo Ishiguro, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Paul Claudel, and T. S. Eliot. After him are Gaston Leroux, Saint Naum, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Eugenio Montale, Frantz Fanon, and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

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Jacob L. Moreno
1889 - 1974
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 534
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804 - 1864
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 535
Kazuo Ishiguro
1954 - Present
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 536
Lorenzo Da Ponte
1749 - 1838
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 537
Paul Claudel
1868 - 1955
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 538
T. S. Eliot
1888 - 1965
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 539
Bai Juyi
772 - 846
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 540
Gaston Leroux
1868 - 1927
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 541
Saint Naum
830 - 910
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 542
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
1813 - 1851
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 543
Eugenio Montale
1896 - 1981
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 544
Frantz Fanon
1925 - 1961
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 545
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
1741 - 1803
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 546

Contemporaries

Among people born in 772, Bai Juyi ranks 1. After him are Charles the Younger, Wala of Corbie, and Liu Yuxi. Among people deceased in 846, Bai Juyi ranks 1. After him are Mojmir I of Moravia, Emperor Wuzong of Tang, and Abu Tammam.