# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/g-william-skinner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:09:28.126Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/g-william-skinner"
name: "G. William Skinner"
slug: "g-william-skinner"
description: "George William Skinner was an American anthropologist and scholar of China. Skinner was a proponent of the spatial approach to Chinese history, as explained in his Presidential Address to the Association for Asian Studies in 1984. He often referred to his approach as \"regional analysis,\" and taught the use of maps as a key class of data in ethnography."
tagline: "American sinologist (1925–2008)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925-02-14"
deathDate: "2008-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.814292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump