# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/song-yingxing
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:53:39.163Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/song-yingxing"
name: "Song Yingxing"
slug: "song-yingxing"
description: "Song Yingxing was a Chinese scientist and encyclopedist who lived during the late Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). He was the author of Tiangong Kaiwu, an encyclopedia that covered a wide variety of technical subjects, including the use of gunpowder weapons. The British biochemist, sinologist, and historian Joseph Needham called Song Yingxing \"The Diderot of China.\""
tagline: "Chinese scholar (1587-1666)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Chinese_Fining_and_Blast_Furnace.jpg/330px-Chinese_Fining_and_Blast_Furnace.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1587"
deathDate: "1666"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.11
  momentum:             1.178571428571428
  historical:           14.51436666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "宋应星"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "སུང་ཡིང་ཞིང་།"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Song Yingxing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sung_Jing-sing"
    title: "Sung Jing-sing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Yingxing"
    title: "Song Yingxing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Yingxing"
    title: "Song Yingxing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Yingxing"
    title: "Song Yingxing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Yingxing"
    title: "Song Yingxing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%8B%E6%87%89%E6%98%9F"
    title: "宋應星"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Yingxing"
    title: "Song Yingxing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%8B%E5%BF%9C%E6%98%9F"
    title: "宋応星"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%86%A1%EC%9D%91%EC%84%B1"
    title: "송응성"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Song Yingxing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сун Инсин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%BD_%D0%87%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%96%D0%BD"
    title: "Сун Їнсін"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "宋应星"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B2ng_%C3%8Cn-seng"
    title: "Sòng Ìn-seng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%8B%E6%87%89%E6%98%9F"
    title: "宋應星"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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