# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ling-mengchu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:30:43.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ling-mengchu"
name: "Ling Mengchu"
slug: "ling-mengchu"
description: "Ling Mengchu was a Chinese writer of the Ming Dynasty. He is best known for his vernacular short fiction collections Slapping the Table in Amazement (拍案驚奇), I and II."
tagline: "Chinese writer of the Ming Dynasty"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E5%87%8C%E6%BF%9B%E5%88%9D.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1580-06-18"
deathDate: "1644"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.9280303030303
  historical:           10.95410533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Ling Mengchu"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ling_Mengchu"
    title: "Ling Mengchu"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ling_Mengchu"
    title: "Ling Mengchu"
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    title: "Лин Мэнчу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лин Мэнчу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C4%83ng_M%C3%B4ng_S%C6%A1"
    title: "Lăng Mông Sơ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%8C%E6%BF%9B%E5%88%9D"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump