# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hu-bo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:40:34.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hu-bo"
name: "Hu Bo"
slug: "hu-bo"
description: "Hu Bo, also known by his pen name Hu Qian, was a Chinese novelist and film director, best known for his only feature film An Elephant Sitting Still (2018), which garnered widespread praise from critics. He died by suicide on 12 October 2017 at the age of 29, soon after he finished that film."
tagline: "Chinese novelist and film director (1988-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hu_Bo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1988-07-20"
deathDate: "2017-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.949472
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9636804/"
    handle:    "nm9636804"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E6%B3%A2"
    title: "胡波"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%88_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85)"
    title: "هو بو (مخرج افلام)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Bo"
    title: "Hu Bo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Bo"
    title: "Hu Bo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Bo"
    title: "Hu Bo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%88"
    title: "هو بو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Bo"
    title: "Hu Bo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Bo"
    title: "Hu Bo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Bo"
    title: "Hu Bo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Bo"
    title: "Hu Bo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%83_%D0%91%D0%BE"
    title: "Ху Бо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%83_%D0%91%D0%BE"
    title: "Ху Бо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Bo"
    title: "Hu Bo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57265516"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3311821"
    title: "Hu Bo"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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