WRITER

Zhang Jie

1937 - 2022

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Zhang Jie (simplified Chinese: 张洁; traditional Chinese: 張潔; pinyin: Zhāng Jié; Wade–Giles: Chang Chieh, 27 April 1937 – 21 January 2022) was a Chinese novelist and short-story writer. She also co-wrote a biography of the film director Wu Zuguang in 1986. She worked on writing different kinds of books for or with young protagonists; these types of works are included in junior and senior high school textbooks in China. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zhang Jie has received more than 17,402 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Zhang Jie is the 4,798th most popular writer (down from 4,185th in 2019), the 893rd most popular biography from China (down from 801st in 2019) and the 106th most popular Chinese Writer.

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  • 17k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zhang Jie ranks 4,798 out of 7,302Before her are Hannah More, Myriam Harry, Ki no Tomonori, Gabriello Chiabrera, Robert Bolt, and Augusta, Lady Gregory. After her are William Martin Leake, James Lee Burke, Lygia Bojunga Nunes, Raymond Abellio, Gáspár Heltai, and Nicholas Evans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Zhang Jie ranks 355Before her are Ron Leibman, Sergey Ling, Toribio Ticona Porco, Valeri Popenchenko, Christina Schollin, and Brian Redman. After her are Pat Roach, Barbro Lindgren, Jim Harrison, Yvonne Craig, Ernest Lluch, and Jesús del Muro. Among people deceased in 2022, Zhang Jie ranks 348Before her are Ela Bhatt, Víctor Benítez, Jô Soares, Bob Falkenburg, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, and Anatoly Alyabyev. After her are Nicholas Evans, Lodewijk van den Berg, Orlando de la Torre, George Cohen, Mary Alice, and Luigi De Magistris.

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In China

Among people born in China, Zhang Jie ranks 893 out of 1,610Before her are Lin Shu (1852), Jiang Wen (1963), James Wong Howe (1899), John Baptist Wu (1925), Dilraba Dilmurat (1992), and Xie Fuzhi (1909). After her are Yao Lee (1922), Zhu Ziqing (1898), Bai Yang (1920), Coco Lee (1975), Keye Luke (1904), and Wu Wenjun (1919).

Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Zhang Jie ranks 106Before her are Mervyn Peake (1911), Dai Sijie (1954), Wen Yiduo (1899), Can Xue (1953), Wang Guowei (1877), and Lin Shu (1852). After her are Zhu Ziqing (1898), John Hersey (1914), Wang Meng (1934), Ingrid Noll (1935), Jiang Rong (1946), and Fang Fang (1955).