# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-s-service
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:49:13.601Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-s-service"
name: "John S. Service"
slug: "john-s-service"
description: "John Stewart Service was an American diplomat who served in the Foreign Service in China prior to and during World War II. Considered one of the State Department's \"China Hands,\" he was an important member of the Dixie Mission to Yan'an. Service correctly predicted that the Communists would defeat the Nationalists in a civil war. He and other diplomats were blamed for the \"loss\" of China in the domestic political turmoil after the 1949 Communist triumph in China. In June 1945, Service was arrested in the Amerasia Affair in 1945. The prosecution sought an indictment for espionage, but a federal grand jury unanimously declined to indict him."
tagline: "American diplomat (1909-1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Stewart_Service_circa_1945.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1909-08-03"
deathDate: "1999-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.828404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stewart_Service"
    title: "John Stewart Service"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Service"
    title: "John S. Service"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Service"
    title: "John S. Service"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Service"
    title: "John S. Service"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B0%A2%E4%BC%9F%E6%80%9D"
    title: "谢伟思"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1371471"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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