title: Tang Cai Zi Zhuan
text: # Tang Cai Zi Zhuan
  
  The Tang Cai Zi Zhuan (simplified Chinese: 唐才子传; traditional Chinese: 唐才子傳; pinyin: Táng Cái Zǐ Zhuán; Wade–Giles: $Tang^3$ $Tsai^1$ $Tzu^3$ $Chuan^1)$ is a Chinese collection of biographies of poets of the Tang Dynasty.
  
  ## Compiler and date
  
  It was compiled by the Yuan dynasty figure Xin Wenfang [zh].
  
  ## Contents
  
  It is in ten volumes, and contains biographies of 278 poets.
  
  ## Textual tradition
  
  The work was lost in China from the mid-Ming dynasty. It was, however, copied in Japan at the Five Mountains, and that text was later reexported back to China at the end of the Qing dynasty.
  
  