# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alec-ash
# Generated: 2026-08-20T23:52:49.464Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alec-ash"
name: "Alec Ash"
slug: "alec-ash"
description: "Alec Ash is a British writer and editor known for his extensive work on China, where he lived from 2008 to 2022. He is a senior fellow at Asia Society in New York, where he edits the China Books Review. He has written two books of literary non-fiction about China, as well as numerous articles."
tagline: "British writer and editor"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Alec-ash.png/330px-Alec-ash.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1986"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.543413333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  54
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Ash"
    title: "Alec Ash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112521090"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations