# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:46:42.285Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Zhuang Zhou lived in 4th century BCE China, during the Warring States period — an era when a hundred competing schools of thought fought for attention. He wrote or co-wrote the Zhuangzi, a text that became one of Taoism's two founding works alongside the Tao Te Ching. Where other philosophers of his time built systems, he built riddles. The work carries his name and his method: thought experiments that dissolve the border between self and world, waking and sleep.