# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zhang-dai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:56:38.958Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zhang-dai"
name: "Zhang Dai"
slug: "zhang-dai"
description: "Zhang Dai, courtesy name Zongzi (宗子) and pseudonym Tao'an (陶庵), was a Chinese essayist and historian. He was a gentleman essayist who was a biographer of his own privileged aristocratic family, a historian of the Ming dynasty, and a biographer of notable virtuous figures. He wrote his own obituary which included the lines: \"He loved pretty maidservants, he loved handsome serving boys ... he loved perfect food ... he loved paintings of flowers and birds.\""
tagline: "Chinese historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E5%BC%B5%E5%B2%B1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1597"
deathDate: "1689"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.08
  momentum:             0.2932375822860563
  historical:           10.79525333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E5%BC%B5%E5%B2%B1"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "تشانج داى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cang_Taj"
    title: "Čang Taj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Dai"
    title: "Zhang Dai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Dai"
    title: "Zhang Dai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%B5%E5%B2%B1_(%E6%98%8E)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%A5%EB%8C%80_(%EC%97%AD%EC%82%AC%EA%B0%80)"
    title: "장대 (역사가)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B9"
    title: "Чжан Дай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B9"
    title: "Чжан Дай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%A0%E5%B2%B1"
    title: "张岱"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%B5%E5%B2%B1"
    title: "張岱"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%B5%E5%B2%B1"
    title: "張岱"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%B5%E5%B2%B1_(%E6%98%8E%E6%9C%9D)"
    title: "張岱 (明朝)"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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