# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wu-cheng-en
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:34.699Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Wu Cheng'en was a Ming dynasty novelist, poet, and politician born around 1500. He held the courtesy name Ruzhong and moved between literary and official circles during a period when China's vernacular fiction was gaining literary respect. Though authorship debates linger, he's widely considered the mind behind Journey to the West, the fantastical pilgrimage tale that blended Buddhist allegory, folklore, and satire into a work that would shape Chinese storytelling for centuries. He died sometime between 1580 and 1582, leaving behind a novel that outlasted the dynasty itself.