# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/qian-zhongshu
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:19:55.637Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/qian-zhongshu"
name: "Qian Zhongshu"
slug: "qian-zhongshu"
description: "Qian Zhongshu, also transliterated as Ch'ien Chung-shu or Dzien Tsoong-su, was a Chinese literary scholar and writer. He was known for his satirical novel Fortress Besieged; his rarefied, polyglot nonfiction; and his role in translating Mao Zedong’s writings into English."
tagline: "Chinese literary scholar and writer (1910–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Qian_Zhongshu_1940s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1910-11-21"
deathDate: "1998-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.77
  momentum:             0.8873720136518772
  historical:           21.332336
  currentAttention:     4.929844520288206
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2047999"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump