# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/xu-gan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:56:52.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/xu-gan"
name: "Xu Gan"
slug: "xu-gan"
description: "Xu Gan, courtesy name Weichang (偉長), was a Chinese philosopher, poet and official of the late Eastern Han dynasty, and one of the \"Seven Scholars of Jian'an\". He is best known in the West for his discourse on the relationship between the names and actualities, preserved in his treatise Zhonglun (中論), or \"Balanced Discourses\"."
tagline: "Chinese philosopher and poet (171–218)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "170"
deathDate: "218"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.27969866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%90%E5%B9%B9"
    title: "徐幹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "شو جان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Gan"
    title: "Xu Gan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Gan"
    title: "Xu Gan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsz%C3%BC_Kan"
    title: "Hszü Kan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%90%E5%B9%B9"
    title: "徐幹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%84%9C%EA%B0%84"
    title: "서간"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Gan"
    title: "Xu Gan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8E%D0%B9_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C"
    title: "Сюй Гань"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8E%D0%B9_%D2%90%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C"
    title: "Сюй Ґань"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%90%E5%B9%B2"
    title: "徐干"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%90%E5%B9%B9"
    title: "徐幹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q621373"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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