# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bai-juyi
# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:26:37.026Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/bai-juyi"
name: "Bai Juyi"
slug: "bai-juyi"
description: "A Tang dynasty poet who wrote in plain language when everyone else was chasing ornament—and became the most widely read writer in medieval East Asia because of it."
tagline: "Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty (772-846)"
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birthDate: "0772-02-28"
deathDate: "0846-09-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Bai Juyi (772–846) served as governor across three provinces during the Tang dynasty, and his poems drew heavily from what he saw: the rhythms of administration, the textures of everyday life. While other poets cultivated difficulty, he worked in a low-key, near-vernacular style that traveled easily—his verse spread through Japan, where he's still known as Haku Rakuten, and shaped that country's literary development. His younger brother Bai Xingjian wrote short stories. The long narrative poems made his name permanent: "Chang Hen Ge" (Song of Everlasting Sorrow) traced the story of Yang Guifei, and "Pipa xing" (Song of the Pipa) became another anchor text. He was also a musician, and the clarity that made his lines famous never left them.