# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nien-cheng
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:49:12.847Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nien-cheng"
name: "Nien Cheng"
slug: "nien-cheng"
description: "Nien Cheng or Zheng Nian was the pen name of Yao Nien-Yuan. She was a Chinese author known for recounting her experiences during the Cultural Revolution in her memoir Life and Death in Shanghai."
tagline: "Chinese writer (1915-2009)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-01-28"
deathDate: "2009-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.242948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%91%E5%BF%B5"
    title: "郑念"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "نين تشينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nien_Cheng"
    title: "Nien Cheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nien_Cheng"
    title: "Nien Cheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nien_Cheng"
    title: "Nien Cheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%84%AD%E5%BF%B5"
    title: "鄭念"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nien_Cheng"
    title: "Nien Cheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%8C%D1%94%D0%BD_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Ньєн Чен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463030"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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