# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zhu-xi
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:25:00.131Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/zhu-xi"
name: "Zhu Xi"
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description: "He built the intellectual operating system that ran imperial China for six centuries. Zhu Xi's commentaries on the Confucian classics became the mandatory texts for every civil service exam from 1313 to 1905, and his Neo-Confucian framework—fusing ethics, ritual, and cosmology—was adopted as state ideology across East Asia."
tagline: "Chinese historian, neo-Confucian philosopher, poet, and politician during the Song dynasty (1130–1200)"
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birthDate: "1130-10-18"
deathDate: "1200-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1130 during the Southern Song dynasty, Zhu Xi grew into a scholar of staggering range: philosopher, historian, poet, calligrapher, and occasional government official who largely avoided public life. He spent decades teaching students, corresponding with peers, and compiling nearly a hundred books. Building on the Cheng brothers' work, he advanced a rigorous method called "investigation of things" and wove moral self-cultivation, meditation, and classical study into a unified system—explicitly rejecting Buddhist claims of instant enlightenment divorced from learning and practice. His editorial work on the Four Books and his development of Li (Forma) and Qi (Materia) metaphysics reshaped Confucian thought. After his death in 1200, his influence only deepened: the Yuan dynasty made his philosophy official doctrine, and for six centuries his commentaries defined what aspiring officials across China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam had to know to pass their exams and enter power.