# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mu-dan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:06:36.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mu-dan"
name: "Mu Dan"
slug: "mu-dan"
description: "Zha Liangzheng, better known by his pen name Mu Dan, was a Chinese poet. Born in Tianjin, he attended Tsinghua University at the age of 17, and graduated from National Southwestern Associated University in 1940. He served as an assistant lecturer of English at his alma mater for about two years. During World War II, he joined the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma and fought alongside the Allied forces against the Japanese. After the war ended, he attended the University of Chicago, where he obtained a master's degree in English literature. He was a distant paternal relative of the wuxia novelist Louis Cha."
tagline: "Chinese poet (1918-1977)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/%E7%A9%86%E6%97%A6.jpg/330px-%E7%A9%86%E6%97%A6.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-04-05"
deathDate: "1977-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.24
  momentum:             0.40169133192389
  historical:           8.368757333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E7%A9%86%E6%97%A6"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_Dan"
    title: "Mu Dan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_Dan"
    title: "Mu Dan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_Dan"
    title: "Mu Dan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AC%B4%EB%8B%A8_(%EC%8B%9C%EC%9D%B8)"
    title: "무단 (시인)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BB%A5c_D%C3%A2n"
    title: "Mục Dân"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A9%86%E6%97%A6"
    title: "穆旦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bok_T%C3%A0n"
    title: "Bok Tàn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A9%86%E6%97%A6"
    title: "穆旦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mu_Dan"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q709271"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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