# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/he-siyuan
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:09:33.477Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/he-siyuan"
name: "He Siyuan"
slug: "he-siyuan"
description: "He Siyuan, also spelled Ho Shih-yuan, was a Chinese educator, politician and guerrilla leader. Educated in China, the United States, and France, he was an economics professor at Sun Yat-sen University and education minister of Shandong Province. When Japan invaded China in 1937, he organized a guerrilla force to fight the resistance war in Shandong, and was the wartime governor of the province.\nHe later became Mayor of Beijing until he negotiated to surrender to communist forces when KMT was losing. He survived Chiang's two attempts to assassinate him, but lost his youngest daughter in the second attack. In 1949 he negotiated the peaceful surrender of Beijing to the Communist forces, ensuring the safety of its millions of residents. Fluent in four European languages, after 1949 he mainly worked on translating foreign publications into Chinese. His elder daughter, He Luli, grew up to become Vice-Mayor of Beijing and Chairwoman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang."
tagline: "Chinese educator, politician, and guerrilla leader"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/He_Siyuan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1896-07-30"
deathDate: "1982-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.12
  momentum:             2.64
  historical:           4.8207
  currentAttention:     14.66666666666666
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هى سيوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Siyuan"
    title: "He Siyuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%95%E6%80%9D%E6%BA%90"
    title: "何思源"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A0_T%C6%B0_Nguy%C3%AAn"
    title: "Hà Tư Nguyên"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%95%E6%80%9D%E6%BA%90"
    title: "何思源"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8460116"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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