A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chang Lei

by Herbert A. Giles

84Chang Lei 張耒 (T. 交潛). A.D. 1046–1106. A native of Huai-yin in Kiangsu, whose early poems attracted the attention of Su Shih. He graduated as chin shih before he was twenty, and by 1086 had gained a high post in the Historiographer's Office. But he twice got into trouble by mixing himself in the cabals of the day; on the first occasion he was banished to a distant post, and on the second he was cashiered. In 1101 he was again banished for openly mourning on the death of his old patron and master, Su Shih. He was bracketed with the latter as one of the Four Great Scholars of the empire, the other two being Ch'ao Pu-chih and Ch'in Kuan. Author of the 兩漢決疑.