WRITER

Wang Wei

699 - 759

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Wang Wei (Traditional Chinese: 王維; Simplified Chinese: 王维, pinyin: Wáng Wéi, 699–761) was a Chinese musician, painter, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty. He is regarded as one of the most distinguished men of arts and letters of his era. About 400 of his poems survived and 29 of them are included in the 18th-century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wang Wei has received more than 48,974 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Wang Wei is the 587th most popular writer (down from 557th in 2019), the 161st most popular biography from China (down from 146th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Chinese Writer.

Wang Wei is most famous for his poetry.

Memorability Metrics

  • 49k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wang Wei ranks 587 out of 7,302. Before him are Osip Mandelstam, Enid Blyton, Abai Qunanbaiuly, Samuel Butler, Allen Ginsberg, and Su Shi. After him are Vasubandhu, Bruno Schulz, D. H. Lawrence, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Ellen G. White, and Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 699, Wang Wei ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 759, Wang Wei ranks 1. After him are Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri, Saint Othmar, and Oswulf of Northumbria.

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    Wang Wei

    WRITER

    699 - 759

    HPI: 65.70

    Rank: 1

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In China

Among people born in China, Wang Wei ranks 161 out of 1,610. Before him are Khorloogiin Choibalsan (1895), Huineng (638), Shen Kuo (1031), Yang Chen-Ning (1922), Liu Shan (207), and Su Shi (1037). After him are Sun Bin (-401), Tsung-Dao Lee (1926), Wu Sangui (1612), Tianqi Emperor (1605), Emperor Taizong of Song (939), and Zhu De (1886).

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Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Wang Wei ranks 13. Before him are Wu Cheng'en (1500), Kumārajīva (343), Bai Juyi (772), Mo Yan (1955), Faxian (340), and Su Shi (1037). After him are Kang Youwei (1858), Cao Xueqin (1724), Tao Yuanming (365), Jin Yong (1924), Ban Gu (32), and Zhang Sanfeng (1200).

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