# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zhong-acheng
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:12:11.486Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zhong-acheng"
name: "Zhong Acheng"
slug: "zhong-acheng"
description: "Zhong Acheng, often known by his pseudonym Ah Cheng, is a Chinese author and screenwriter. He is often associated with the 1980s “root-seeking” literary movement. His best-known works are a trilogy of novellas – The Chess Master, The King of Trees, The King of Children – which draw on rural life during the Cultural Revolution."
tagline: "Chinese screenwriter"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.32873066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155531/"
    handle:    "nm0155531"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zhong_Acheng"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%87%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "زهونج اتشينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cheng"
    title: "A Cheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah_Cheng"
    title: "Ah Cheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Acheng"
    title: "Zhong Acheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Acheng"
    title: "Zhong Acheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Acheng"
    title: "Zhong Acheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah_Cheng"
    title: "Ah Cheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Acheng"
    title: "Zhong Acheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E5%9F%8E_(%E4%BD%9C%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "阿城 (作家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Acheng"
    title: "Zhong Acheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90_%D0%A7%D1%8D%D0%BD"
    title: "А Чэн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Acheng"
    title: "Zhong Acheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E5%9F%8E_(%E4%BD%9C%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "阿城 (作家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q300354"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/233199"
    title: "Zhong A-Cheng"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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