# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederic-wakeman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:15:59.296Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederic-wakeman"
name: "Frederic Wakeman"
slug: "frederic-wakeman"
description: "Frederic Evans Wakeman Jr. was an American scholar of East Asian history and professor of history at University of California, Berkeley. He served as president of the American Historical Association and of the Social Science Research Council. Jonathan D. Spence said of Wakeman that he was an evocative writer who chose, \"like the novelist he really wanted to be, stories that split into different currents and swept the reader along\", adding that he was \"quite simply the best modern Chinese historian of the last 30 years\"."
tagline: "American sinologist (1937–2006)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-12-12"
deathDate: "2006-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.44
  momentum:             2.622950819672131
  historical:           5.958965333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%8F%E6%96%90%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "魏斐德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فريديريك واكيمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Wakeman"
    title: "Frederic Wakeman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Wakeman"
    title: "Frederic Wakeman"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%84%EB%A0%88%EB%8D%94%EB%A6%AD_%EC%9B%A8%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%AC%EB%A8%BC"
    title: "프레더릭 웨이크먼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Wakeman_jr."
    title: "Frederic Wakeman jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%8F%E6%96%90%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "魏斐德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3439093"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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