# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/li-kaixian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:54:41.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/li-kaixian"
name: "Li Kaixian"
slug: "li-kaixian"
description: "Li Kaixian was a Chinese writer, playwright and literary critic of the Ming dynasty from Shandong. He was retired from the government at age 39, and then devoted his life to literature and Chinese opera. He was a member of the circle of intellectuals gathered folk songs and ballads. His first play Sword was a chuanqi play. The play is based on the plot of the novel Water Margin, but the story of Lin Chong had been changed."
tagline: "Chinese writer; CBDB ID = 124897"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Li_Kaixian.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1502"
deathDate: "1568"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.80684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Kchaj-sien"
    title: "Li Kchaj-sien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Kaixian"
    title: "Li Kaixian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Kaixian"
    title: "Li Kaixian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%96_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%8C"
    title: "Лі Кайсянь"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E9%96%8B%E5%85%88"
    title: "李開先"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11098257"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump