# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lin-yutang
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:39:22.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lin-yutang"
name: "Lin Yutang"
slug: "lin-yutang"
description: "Lin Yutang was a Chinese writer, linguist, and inventor. A prolific bilingual writer in both Chinese and English, he was celebrated for pioneering a humorous prose style in modern Chinese literature and for serving as a cultural bridge between China and the West, most notably through My Country and My People (1935) and his English translations of Chinese classics. As a linguist, he compiled a series of ESL textbooks for Chinese learners in the 1930s and later produced an English–Chinese dictionary in the 1970s. As an inventor, he designed a Chinese typewriter, which was patented in the United States in 1952, though it was never mass-produced. From 1940 to 1973, Lin received six nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature."
tagline: "Chinese inventor, novelist and philosopher (1895–1976)"
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gender: "male"
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  isoCode: "CN"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1895-10-10"
deathDate: "1976-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.739732
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.linyutang.org.tw/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump