# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/liao-yiwu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:05:44.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/liao-yiwu"
name: "Liao Yiwu"
slug: "liao-yiwu"
description: "Liao Yiwu is a Chinese author, reporter, musician, and poet. He is a critic of China's Communist Party, for which he was imprisoned in 1990. His books, several of which are collections of interviews with ordinary people from the lower rungs of Chinese society, were published in Taiwan and Hong Kong but are banned in mainland China; some have been translated into Spanish, English, French, German, Polish and Czech. He has been living in Germany since April 2011."
tagline: "Chinese musician and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Liao_Yiwu_2010_Cologne.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-08-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.93506666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0997366/"
    handle:    "nm0997366"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Liao_Yiwu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%88_%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "لياو يو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88_%DB%8C%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%88%D9%88"
    title: "لیائو یی‌وو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liao_I-wu"
    title: "Liao I-wu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liao_Yiwu"
    title: "Liao Yiwu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liao_Yiwu"
    title: "Liao Yiwu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liao_Yiwu"
    title: "Liao Yiwu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liao_Yiwu"
    title: "Liao Yiwu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88_%DB%8C%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%88%D9%88"
    title: "لیائو یی‌وو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liao_Yiwu"
    title: "Liao Yiwu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BB%96%E4%BA%A6%E6%AD%A6"
    title: "廖亦武"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9E%B4%EC%98%A4%EC%9D%B4%EC%9A%B0"
    title: "랴오이우"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liao_Yiwu"
    title: "Liao Yiwu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8F%D0%BE_%D0%98%D1%83"
    title: "Ляо Иу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liao_I-wu"
    title: "Liao I-wu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liao_Yiwu"
    title: "Liao Yiwu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE_%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%81"
    title: "லியா யிய்வு"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liao_Yivu"
    title: "Liao Yivu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%AAu_Di%E1%BB%87c_V%C5%A9"
    title: "Liêu Diệc Vũ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BB%96%E4%BA%A6%E6%AD%A6"
    title: "廖亦武"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708187"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2352688"
    title: "Liao Yiwu"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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