WRITER

Wang Guowei

1877 - 1927

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Wang Guowei (Chinese: 王國維; 2 December 1877 – 2 June 1927) or Wang Kuo-wei, courtesy name Jing'an (靜安) or Boyu (伯隅), was a Chinese historian and poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wang Guowei has received more than 64,813 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Wang Guowei is the 4,601st most popular writer (down from 4,373rd in 2019), the 888th most popular biography from China (down from 814th in 2019) and the 105th most popular Chinese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 65k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wang Guowei ranks 4,601 out of 7,302Before her are Albert Samain, Dante Spinotti, Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, Saint-Pol-Roux, Linn Ullmann, and Camille Paglia. After her are Rodolfo Walsh, Hans Nielsen Hauge, Mordecai Kaplan, Lalleshwari, Yambo Ouologuem, and Hilde Domin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Wang Guowei ranks 135Before her are Elsa Laula Renberg, Liao Zhongkai, Abelardo Olivier, Bolesław Leśmian, Semyon Frank, and Aleksey Remizov. After her are Fritz Graebner, Manuel González García, Maurice Costello, Julius Curtius, René Navarre, and Roelof Klein. Among people deceased in 1927, Wang Guowei ranks 107Before her are Sakina Akhundzadeh, Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Friedrich von Scholtz, Fernand de Langle de Cary, Samuel Garman, and Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos. After her are Hermann von Stein, Marianne Stokes, Henri Hubert, Friedrich Reinitzer, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, and Leonard Nelson.

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In China

Among people born in China, Wang Guowei ranks 888 out of 1,610Before her are Rong Yiren (1916), Toshiko Fujita (1950), Can Xue (1953), Liu Yunshan (1947), Nina Li Chi (1961), and Zhong Shanshan (1954). After her are Liu He (1952), Tsai Chin (1933), Wei Fenghe (1954), Lin Shu (1852), Jiang Wen (1963), and James Wong Howe (1899).

Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Wang Guowei ranks 105Before her are Yu Dafu (1896), Chen Zi'ang (661), Mervyn Peake (1911), Dai Sijie (1954), Wen Yiduo (1899), and Can Xue (1953). After her are Lin Shu (1852), Zhang Jie (1937), Zhu Ziqing (1898), John Hersey (1914), Wang Meng (1934), and Ingrid Noll (1935).