# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zhang-xianliang
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:13:28.608Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zhang-xianliang"
name: "Zhang Xianliang"
slug: "zhang-xianliang"
description: "Zhang Xianliang was a Chinese novelist, essayist, and poet, and former president of the Chinese Writers Association in Ningxia. He was detained as a political prisoner during the Anti-Rightist Movement in 1957, until his political rehabilitation in 1979. His most well known works, including Half of Man is Woman and Grass Soup, were semi-autobiographical reflections on his life experiences in prison and in witnessing the political upheaval of China during the Cultural Revolution."
tagline: "Chinese author and poet (1936-2014)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-12-08"
deathDate: "2014-09-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.07
  momentum:             8.64406779661017
  historical:           12.029412
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "张贤亮"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشانج شيان ليانج"
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    title: "Zhang Xianliang"
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    title: "Zhang Xianliang"
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    title: "Zhang Xianliang"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xianliang"
    title: "Zhang Xianliang"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xianliang"
    title: "Zhang Xianliang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%B5%E8%B3%A2%E4%BA%AE"
    title: "張賢亮"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.L._Zhang"
    title: "X.L. Zhang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xianliang"
    title: "Zhang Xianliang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Чжан Сяньлян"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xianliang"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump