# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ji-xianlin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:04:46.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ji-xianlin"
name: "Ji Xianlin"
slug: "ji-xianlin"
description: "Ji Xianlin was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian and writer who has been honored by the governments of both India and China. Ji was proficient in many languages including Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, English, German, French, Russian, Pali and Tocharian, and translated many works. He published a memoir, The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, about his persecution during the Cultural Revolution."
tagline: "Chinese academic, linguist, historian, translator and university teacher (1911-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ji_Xianlin_1952.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-08-06"
deathDate: "2009-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9333333333333333
  historical:           13.24961333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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