# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jao-tsung-i
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:39:07.214Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jao-tsung-i"
name: "Jao Tsung-I"
slug: "jao-tsung-i"
description: "Jao Tsung-I or Rao Zongyi was a Hong Kong sinologist, calligrapher, historian and painter. A versatile and prolific scholar, he contributed to many fields of humanities, including history, archaeology, epigraphy, folklore, religion, art history, musicology, literature, and Near Eastern Studies. He published more than 100 books and about 1,000 academic articles over a career spanning more than 80 years."
tagline: "Hong Kong Sinologist (1917-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HK_SSP_%E6%B7%B1%E6%B0%B4%E5%9F%97_Sham_Shui_Po_%E8%8D%94%E6%9E%9D%E8%A7%92_Lai_Chi_Kok_%E9%A5%92%E5%AE%97%E9%A0%A4%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E9%A4%A8_Jao_Tsung-I_Academy_February_2019_SSG_16_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1917-08-09"
deathDate: "2018-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.77
  momentum:             3.248851149019496
  historical:           7.084096
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jao_Tsung-I"
    title: "Jao Tsung-I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jao_Tsung-I"
    title: "Jao Tsung-I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jao_Tsung-i"
    title: "Jao Tsung-i"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A5%92%E5%AE%97%E9%A0%A4"
    title: "饒宗頤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jao_Tsung-I"
    title: "Jao Tsung-I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A5%92%E5%AE%97%E9%A0%A4"
    title: "饒宗頤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A5%92%E5%AE%97%E9%A0%A4"
    title: "饒宗頤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6123814"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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