# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sidney-rittenberg
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:52:48.721Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sidney-rittenberg"
name: "Sidney Rittenberg"
slug: "sidney-rittenberg"
description: "Sidney Rittenberg was an American journalist, scholar, and Chinese linguist who lived in China from 1944 to 1980. He worked closely with Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, and other leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the Chinese Communist Revolution, staying with them at Yan'an. Working for the Xinhua News Agency and Radio Peking afterwards, much of his time in China was spent in long periods of solitary confinement. According to his book, The Man Who Stayed Behind, Rittenberg was the second American citizen to join the CCP, the first being Ma Haide."
tagline: "American academic (1921-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sidney_Rittenberg_20121004_3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1921-08-14"
deathDate: "2019-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.24
  momentum:             0.0959763750461425
  historical:           8.831793333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump