# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wu-wenzao
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:44.207Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wu-wenzao"
name: "Wu Wenzao"
slug: "wu-wenzao"
description: "Wu Wenzao was a Chinese sociologist, anthropologist, ethnologist. He was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu. He was admitted into Tsinghua University at 1917. In 1923, his schoolmate Pan Guangdan persuaded him to go abroad to study at Dartmouth College after his graduation from Tsinghua. The classes in biology, chemistry, and the other natural sciences at Dartmouth greatly influenced him, and he later attempted to have his students use the scientific methods in their social studies. In 1925, he was admitted into Columbia University, and in 1928 he got his PhD in the Department of Sociology. In 1929, he married Bing Xin, when they were studying in the United States. Together, he and Bing Xin visited different intellectual circles around the world, communicating with other intellectuals such as Virginia Woolf. In 1938 he founded the Department of Sociology of Yunnan University, after 1950 he served as a professor of Central College for Nationalities. Fei Xiaotong, Lin Yaohua, Huang Huajie, Qu Tongzu were his students. Wu greatly promoted localization of sociology and ethnology in China as a whole."
tagline: "Chinese academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bing_Xin_1926.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1901-12-20"
deathDate: "1985-09-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.949281333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "و وينزاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Wenzao"
    title: "Wu Wenzao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9A%B0%EC%9B%90%EC%A7%9C%EC%98%A4"
    title: "우원짜오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%B4%E6%96%87%E8%97%BB"
    title: "吴文藻"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10919536"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations