WRITER

Li Bai

701 - 762

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Li Bai (Chinese: 李白; pinyin: Lǐ Bái, 701–762), formerly pronounced Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (太白), was a Chinese poet acclaimed as one of the greatest and most important poets of the Tang dynasty and in Chinese history as a whole. He and his friend Du Fu (712–770) were two of the most prominent figures in the flourishing of Chinese poetry under the Tang dynasty, which is often called the "Golden Age of Chinese Poetry". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Li Bai has received more than 1,519,606 page views. His biography is available in 144 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 139 in 2019). Li Bai is the 70th most popular writer (down from 56th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from China (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Writer.

Li bai is most famous for being a poet who was born in the Tang Dynasty and was well known for his poems about the natural world.

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  • 82.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 144

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Li Bai ranks 70 out of 7,302. Before him are Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Heinrich Heine, Romain Rolland, Bertolt Brecht, and Nikolai Gogol. After him are Charles Perrault, Milan Kundera, Robert Frost, Theodor Herzl, Jorge Luis Borges, and Václav Havel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 701, Li Bai ranks 1. After him are Ibn Hisham, Yazid III, Emperor Shōmu, Tzitzak, Saman Khuda, John VII of Constantinople, Yahya ibn Khalid, Al-Khayzuran, Thekla, wife of Michael II, Euphemius, and Theophano of Athens. Among people deceased in 762, Li Bai ranks 1. After him are Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Padmasambhava, Emperor Suzong of Tang, Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, and Vineh of Bulgaria.

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In China

Among people born in China, Li Bai ranks 11 out of 1,610. Before him are Karma (null), Sun Tzu (-544), Laozi (-604), Zheng He (1387), Sun Yat-sen (1866), and Deng Xiaoping (1904). After him are Sima Qian (-145), 14th Dalai Lama (1935), Xi Jinping (1953), Kublai Khan (1215), Empress Dowager Cixi (1835), and Du Fu (712).

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Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Li Bai ranks 1. After him are Du Fu (712), Lu Xun (1881), Gao Xingjian (1940), Qu Yuan (-343), Luo Guanzhong (1330), Wu Cheng'en (1500), Kumārajīva (343), Bai Juyi (772), Mo Yan (1955), Faxian (340), and Su Shi (1037).

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