# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cheng-nan-jung
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:33:58.434Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cheng-nan-jung"
name: "Cheng Nan-jung"
slug: "cheng-nan-jung"
description: "Cheng Nan-jung, nicknamed Nylon Deng, was a Taiwanese publisher and pro-democracy activist. He was the founder of the Freedom Era Weekly. He is most known internationally for setting himself on fire in support of freedom of speech."
tagline: "Taiwanese publisher and activist (1947–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E4%BA%94%E6%9C%88%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E6%97%A5_%E4%B8%AD%E8%8F%AF%E6%B0%91%E5%9C%8B%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E5%9B%9B%E4%BB%BB%E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1%E3%80%81%E5%89%AF%E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1%E5%B0%B1%E8%81%B7%E6%85%B6%E7%A5%9D%E5%85%B8%E7%A6%AE_(cropped)_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1947-09-12"
deathDate: "1989-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.01805733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "تشينغ نان جونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشينج نان چونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cheng Nan-jung"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Nan-jung"
    title: "Cheng Nan-jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Nan-jung"
    title: "Cheng Nan-jung"
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    title: "Cheng Nan-jung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "鄭南榕"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tēnn Lâm-iông"
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  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%93%E2%81%BF_L%C3%A2m-i%C3%B4ng"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump