# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wu-xiuquan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:26:27.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wu-xiuquan"
name: "Wu Xiuquan"
slug: "wu-xiuquan"
description: "Wu Xiuquan was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, military officer, and diplomat. He studied in the Soviet Union, enlisted in the Chinese Red Army, and participated in the Long March. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, China's first ambassador to Yugoslavia, and Vice Minister of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party. After being imprisoned for eight years during the Cultural Revolution, Wu was appointed Deputy Chief of the People's Liberation Army General Staff Department in 1975 and later served as vice president of the special court that tried and convicted the Gang of Four and the Lin Biao clique of numerous crimes during the Cultural Revolution."
tagline: "Chinese diplomat and politician, Vice Foreign Minister of China"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wu_Xiuquan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-03-06"
deathDate: "1997-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.716166666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Xiuquan"
    title: "Wu Xiuquan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "وو شيوى تشيوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Siou-%C4%8Dch%C3%BCan"
    title: "Wu Siou-čchüan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8D%E4%BF%AE%E6%9D%83"
    title: "伍修权"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Xiuquan"
    title: "Wu Xiuquan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Xiuquan"
    title: "Wu Xiuquan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8289558"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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