# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jonathan-spence
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:50:15.460Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jonathan-spence"
name: "Jonathan Spence"
slug: "jonathan-spence"
description: "Jonathan Dermot Spence  was a British-American sinologist and historian who specialised in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. He was best known for his book The Search for Modern China (1990), a survey of the last several hundred years of Chinese history. He published over a dozen books on China. Spence's major interest was modern China, especially the Qing dynasty, and relations between China and the West. Spence frequently used biographies to examine cultural and political history."
tagline: "British-born historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-08-11"
deathDate: "2021-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.66
  momentum:             0.5636743215031313
  historical:           14.478012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جوناثان سبينس"
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    title: "جوناثان سبينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jonathan Spence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_D._Spence"
    title: "Jonathan D. Spence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Spence"
    title: "Jonathan Spence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Spence"
    title: "Jonathan Spence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Spence"
    title: "Jonathan Spence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョナサン・スペンス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EB%84%88%EC%84%A0_%EC%8A%A4%ED%8E%9C%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "조너선 스펜스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jonathan D. Spence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jonathan Spence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jonathan Spence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q932820"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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