Yuan Zhen

Yuan Zhen

Yuan Zhen (Chinese: 元稹; Wade–Giles: Yüan Chen; 779 – September 2, 831), courtesy name Weizhi (微之), was a Chinese novelist, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty. In prose literature, Yuan Zhen is particularly known for his work Yingying's Biography, which has often been adapted for other treatments, including operatic and musical ones. In poetry, he is remembered for the inclusion of some of his poems by popular anthologies, his verses on exotic topics (such as the former Liangzhou), and for being part of the group of "New Yuefu" poets, which often used poetry as a form of expression and protest, but one potentially subtle enough to avoid the likely repercussions of more direct criticism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuan Zhen has received more than 61,635 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Yuan Zhen is the 2,561st most popular writer (down from 2,362nd in 2019), the 624th most popular biography from China (down from 560th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Chinese Writer.