# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-meisner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:21:13.718Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-meisner"
name: "Maurice Meisner"
slug: "maurice-meisner"
description: "Maurice Jerome Meisner was an American sinologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He studied the Chinese Communist Revolution and the People's Republic and held a strong interest in socialist ideology, Marxism, and Maoism in particular. He authored a number of books including Mao's China: A History of the People's Republic which became a standard academic text for scholars in the field."
tagline: "Historian of modern China"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/M_Meisner.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-11-17"
deathDate: "2012-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.825992
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "موريس ميسنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maurice Meisner"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%A8%EB%A6%AC%EC%8A%A4_%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%EC%8A%A4%EB%84%88"
    title: "모리스 마이스너"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Meisner"
    title: "Maurice Meisner"
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    title: "莫里斯·迈斯纳"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6793347"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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