WRITER

Dai Sijie

1954 - Today

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Dai Sijie (born 2 March 1954) is a Chinese French author and filmmaker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dai Sijie has received more than 127,457 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Dai Sijie is the 4,457th most popular writer (down from 4,387th in 2019), the 866th most popular biography from China (down from 815th in 2019) and the 101st most popular Chinese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
2002
Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise
Fiction, History, Man-woman relationships
2000
Once on a Moonless Night
Fiction, Literature
From the author of the beloved best seller Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, a haunting tale of love and of the beguiling power of a lost language.When Puyi, the last emperor, was exiled to Manchuria in the early 1930s, it is said that he carried an eight-hundred-year-old silk scroll inscribed with a lost sutra composed by the Buddha. Eventually the scroll would be sold illicitly to an eccentric French linguist named Paul d'Ampere, in a transaction that would land him in prison, where he would devote his life to studying the ineffably beautiful ancient language of the forgotten text.Our unnamed narrator, a Western student in China in the 1970s, hears this story from the greengrocer Tumchooq--his name the same as that of the language in which the scroll is written--who has recently returned from three years of reeducation. She will come again and again to Tumchooq's shop near the gates of the Forbidden City, drawn by the young man and his stories of an estranged father. But when d'Ampere is killed in prison, Tumchooq disappears, abandoning the narrator, now pregnant with his child. And it is she, going in search of her lost love, who will at last find the missing scroll and discover the truth of the Buddha's lesson that begins "Once on a moonless night . . ." in this story that carries us across the breadth of China's past, the myth and the reality.From the Hardcover edition.
2009
Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée
Chinese Manuscripts, Buddhist literature, French fiction
2007
Balzac und die kleine chinesische Schneiderin
Junger Mann, Bergdorf, Umerziehung
2002
Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch
2005

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dai Sijie ranks 4,457 out of 7,302. Before him are Gudrun Pausewang, Severus Sanctus Endelechius, Jan Myrdal, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Einar Benediktsson, and Helen Thomas. After him are Sakina Akhundzadeh, Kostandin Kristoforidhi, Joe Abercrombie, Ava, Ladislav Mňačko, and Titus Quinctius Atta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Dai Sijie ranks 270. Before him are Anatoly Chukanov, Antón Lamazares, Ross the Boss, Carter Burwell, Larry Van Kriedt, and David Keith. After him are Don Wilson, Amparo Muñoz, Mario Testino, Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Spagna, and Bob Rock.

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In China

Among people born in China, Dai Sijie ranks 866 out of 1,610. Before him are Huang Ju (1938), Luo Ronghuan (1902), Chi Haotian (1929), Hau Pei-tsun (1919), Mervyn Peake (1911), and Li Rui (1917). After him are Lang Ping (1960), Guo Boxiong (1942), Thomas Tien Ken-sin (1890), Li Changchun (1944), Liu Gang (1961), and Zhao Wei (1976).

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  • Photo of Huang Ju

    Huang Ju

    POLITICIAN

    1938 - 2007

    HPI: 49.52

    Rank: 860

  • Photo of Luo Ronghuan

    Luo Ronghuan

    POLITICIAN

    1902 - 1963

    HPI: 49.44

    Rank: 861

  • Photo of Chi Haotian

    Chi Haotian

    MILITARY PERSONNEL

    1929 - Present

    HPI: 49.33

    Rank: 862

  • Photo of Hau Pei-tsun

    Hau Pei-tsun

    POLITICIAN

    1919 - 2020

    HPI: 49.33

    Rank: 863

  • Photo of Mervyn Peake

    Mervyn Peake

    WRITER

    1911 - 1968

    HPI: 49.18

    Rank: 864

  • Photo of Li Rui

    Li Rui

    POLITICIAN

    1917 - 2019

    HPI: 49.17

    Rank: 865

  • Photo of Dai Sijie

    Dai Sijie

    WRITER

    1954 - Present

    HPI: 49.14

    Rank: 866

  • Photo of Lang Ping

    Lang Ping

    VOLLEYBALL PLAYER

    1960 - Present

    HPI: 49.14

    Rank: 867

  • Photo of Guo Boxiong

    Guo Boxiong

    MILITARY PERSONNEL

    1942 - Present

    HPI: 49.05

    Rank: 868

  • Photo of Thomas Tien Ken-sin

    Thomas Tien Ken-sin

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    1890 - 1967

    HPI: 49.00

    Rank: 869

  • Photo of Li Changchun

    Li Changchun

    POLITICIAN

    1944 - Present

    HPI: 48.99

    Rank: 870

  • Photo of Liu Gang

    Liu Gang

    COMPUTER SCIENTIST

    1961 - Present

    HPI: 48.97

    Rank: 871

  • Photo of Zhao Wei

    Zhao Wei

    ACTOR

    1976 - Present

    HPI: 48.94

    Rank: 872

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Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Dai Sijie ranks 101. Before him are Yan Lianke (1958), Ma Duanlin (1245), Hwang Sok-yong (1943), Yu Dafu (1896), Chen Zi'ang (661), and Mervyn Peake (1911). After him are Wen Yiduo (1899), Can Xue (1953), Wang Guowei (1877), Lin Shu (1852), Zhang Jie (1937), and Zhu Ziqing (1898).

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