# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zhuge-liang
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:46:26.713Z

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name: "Zhuge Liang"
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description: "A recluse called the \"Sleeping Dragon\" who became the architect of an entire state — and then ran it. Zhuge Liang turned hermit intellect into total authority over Shu Han's civil and military machinery, blending Confucian benevolence with Legalist discipline while leading campaigns that never quite broke the north."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Orphaned young, Zhuge Liang followed his uncle to Jing Province and withdrew to Longzhong, where his reputation drew Liu Bei to his door three times. He proposed the Longzhong Plan — secure two provinces, ally with Eastern Wu, resist Cao Wei — and became Liu Bei's chief strategist, helping engineer the alliance that crushed Cao Cao at Red Cliffs. After Shu Han's founding in 221 he rose to chancellor, then regent, governing with strict meritocracy, agricultural investment, and laws enforced without favor. He pacified the southwest, then launched repeated northern expeditions against Wei, writing the Chu Shi Biao — a prose masterwork of loyalty and statecraft — to the young emperor Liu Shan. He died in 234 at Wuzhang Plains, still on campaign, and centuries later the Romance of the Three Kingdoms cast him as the sage who never broke faith.