# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-henderson-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:34:33.517Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-henderson-smith"
name: "Arthur Henderson Smith"
slug: "arthur-henderson-smith"
description: "Arthur Henderson Smith was a Christian missionary and a member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, noted for spending 54 years as a missionary in China and writing books that presented China to foreign readers. These books include Chinese Characteristics, Village Life in China, The Uplift of China and China in Convulsion (1901), which describes his time under siege in Beijing (Peking) in the Boxer Rebellion. In the 1920s, Chinese Characteristics remained the most widely read book on China among foreign residents there."
tagline: "Missionary and author from the United States in China (1845-1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arthur_H_Smith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1845-07-18"
deathDate: "1932-08-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.960297333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "آرثر هندرسون سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Henderson_Smith"
    title: "Arthur Henderson Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E%E6%81%A9%E6%BA%A5"
    title: "明恩溥"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E%E6%81%A9%E6%BA%A5"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4799020"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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