# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-h-hinton
# Generated: 2026-09-02T11:49:09.442Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-h-hinton"
name: "William H. Hinton"
slug: "william-h-hinton"
description: "William Howard Hinton was an American intellectual, known for his work on communism in China. He authored the book Fanshen, published in 1966, a \"documentary of revolution\" which chronicled the land reform program of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 1940s in Zhangzhuangcun, sometimes translated as Long Bow Village, a village in Shanxi Province in northern China. Sequels (Shenfan) followed the experience of the village during the 1950s and Cultural Revolution. Hinton wrote and lectured extensively to explain the Maoist approach and later to criticize Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening up."
tagline: "American writer (1919–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_and_Joan_Hinton_1993_R01_013_(%E9%9F%A9%E4%B8%81).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1919-02-02"
deathDate: "2004-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.6
  momentum:             6.093779225208772
  historical:           4.881972
  currentAttention:     21.90721649484536
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4._%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ويليام اتش. هينتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Hinton"
    title: "William H. Hinton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Hinton"
    title: "William H. Hinton"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ウィリアム・ヒントン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9F%A9%E4%B8%81"
    title: "韩丁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2645956"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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