# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/huang-xianfan
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:02:10.162Z

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tagline: "Chinese historian, ethnologist and educator (1899-1982)"
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birthDate: "1899-11-13"
deathDate: "1982-01-18"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Huang Xianfan was born November 13, 1899, into the Zhuang ethnic group in China. He built a career across three overlapping domains: history, ethnology, and education. His work focused on recording and analyzing the societies of China's ethnic minorities, particularly those in the south, at a time when such scholarship was marginal. He taught, wrote, and shaped how those communities were understood within Chinese academia. Huang died January 18, 1982, having spent more than half a century in the field.