# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-ya-ching
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:45:48.794Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-ya-ching"
name: "Lee Ya-Ching"
slug: "lee-ya-ching"
description: "Lee Ya-Ching, also known by her stage name Li Dandan (李旦旦), was a Chinese film actress, pioneering aviator, and philanthropist. She was the first Chinese woman to be granted a civil aviation license in China, in 1936, and also co-founded its first civilian flying school. As an actress, she starred in Romance of the Western Chamber, and played the lead in an early adaptation of Mulan for the screen. Lee Ya-Ching is an Anglicized version of her Chinese name."
tagline: "Chinese aviator and actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Li_Xiaqing.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1912-04-16"
deathDate: "1998-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.7
  momentum:             0.05813953488372094
  historical:           7.685350666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498469/"
    handle:    "nm0498469"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E9%9C%9E%E5%8D%BF"
    title: "李霞卿"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "لى يا كينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ya-Ching"
    title: "Lee Ya-Ching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ya-Ching"
    title: "Lee Ya-Ching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ya-Ching"
    title: "Lee Ya-Ching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ya-Ching"
    title: "Lee Ya-Ching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8_%D0%A1%D1%8F%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Ли Сяцин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8_%D0%A1%D1%98%D0%B0%D1%9B%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Ли Сјаћинг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6539175"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1345457"
    title: "Li Dandan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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