# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chiang-wen-yeh
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:30:12.539Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chiang-wen-yeh"
name: "Chiang Wen-yeh"
slug: "chiang-wen-yeh"
description: "Kang Bûn-iā, Chiang Wen-yeh or Jiang Wenye was a Taiwan-born composer, active mainly in Japan and later in China. He was born in Dadaocheng, Taipei, Taiwan and died in Beijing. While often known in the West by renditions of his Chinese name, the three Chinese characters that form his name are pronounced Kō Bunya in Japanese, and thus he is also known as Koh Bunya in the West. In his compositions, which range from for piano to choral and orchestral works, he merged elements of traditional Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese music with modernist influences. Due to the political turmoil surrounding his life, he came to be largely forgotten during the latter part of his life. After his death, however, his work has started to gain new recognition in East Asia as well as in the West."
tagline: "Taiwanese composer (1910–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jiang_Wen-Ye_1930s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1910-06-11"
deathDate: "1983-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.35
  momentum:             1.213235294117647
  historical:           10.10957866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1292881/"
    handle:    "nm1292881"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/19229892-b25d-4449-a65f-3ec8f77cfe49"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%89"
    title: "چيانج وين ى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Wenye"
    title: "Jiang Wenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Wen-yeh"
    title: "Chiang Wen-yeh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Wen-yeh"
    title: "Chiang Wen-yeh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%9F%E6%96%87%E4%B9%9F"
    title: "江文也"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%A5%EC%9B%90%EC%98%88"
    title: "장원예"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B7%D1%8F%D0%BD_%D0%92%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%B5"
    title: "Цзян Вэнье"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_B%C3%BBn-i%C4%81"
    title: "Kang Bûn-iā"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%9F%E6%96%87%E4%B9%9F"
    title: "江文也"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E6%B1%9F%E6%96%87%E4%B9%9F"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q709950"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2043554"
    title: "Jiang Wen-Ye"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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