# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wang-chao
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:38:56.535Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wang-chao"
name: "Wang Chao"
slug: "wang-chao"
description: "Wang Chao is a Chinese film director and screenwriter, sometimes considered part of the loosely defined \"sixth generation.\" Wang began his career serving as an assistant director to the fifth generation auteur, Chen Kaige, working with the elder director on epics like Farewell My Concubine and The Emperor and the Assassin. At the same time, he began to write fiction including several short stories and novellas, one of which would later go on to serve as the basis of Wang's directorial debut, The Orphan of Anyang."
tagline: "Chinese film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wang_Chao_Jian_RenZi_2014-2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-01-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.44
  momentum:             7.567079463364293
  historical:           6.81116
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910852/"
    handle:    "nm0910852"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%8B%E8%B6%85_(%E5%B0%8E%E6%BC%94)"
    title: "王超 (導演)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%88_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85)"
    title: "وانج تشاو (مخرج افلام)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chao_(director)"
    title: "Wang Chao (director)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chao_(director)"
    title: "Wang Chao (director)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chao"
    title: "Wang Chao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chao"
    title: "Wang Chao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chao"
    title: "Wang Chao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3566047"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3215767"
    title: "Chao Wang"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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