# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sarah-allan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:28:34.929Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sarah-allan"
name: "Sarah Allan"
slug: "sarah-allan"
description: "Sarah Allan is an American paleographer and scholar of ancient China. She was a Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College; she is currently affiliated to the University of California, Berkeley. She is Chair for the Society for the Study of Early China and Editor of Early China. Previously, she was Senior Lecturer in Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She is best known for her interdisciplinary approach to the mythological and philosophical systems of early Chinese civilization."
tagline: "American scholar of ancient China"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.61
  momentum:             2.647058823529412
  historical:           5.471382666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Allan"
    title: "Sarah Allan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سارة ألان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سارة الان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Allan"
    title: "Sarah Allan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Allan"
    title: "Sarah Allan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Allan"
    title: "Sarah Allan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7422048"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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