# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/xu-jiyu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:09:23.878Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/xu-jiyu"
name: "Xu Jiyu"
slug: "xu-jiyu"
description: "Xu Jiyu, native of Wutai County in Shanxi, high-ranking Chinese official and geographer during the late Qing dynasty. He is mostly known as the author of A Short Account of the Maritime Circuit (1849) and is widely regarded as an early participant of the Self-Strengthening Movement."
tagline: "Chinese scholar (1795-1873)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E5%BE%90%E7%BB%A7%E7%95%B2%E5%83%8F.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1795"
deathDate: "1873"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.08
  momentum:             1.909090909090909
  historical:           5.519010666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%84%9C%EA%B3%84%EC%97%AC"
    title: "서계여"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Jiyu"
    title: "Xu Jiyu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%90%E7%B6%99%E7%95%AC"
    title: "徐継畬"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%90%E7%BB%A7%E7%95%AC"
    title: "徐继畬"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Jiyu"
    title: "Xu Jiyu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%90%E7%B9%BC%E7%95%AC"
    title: "徐繼畬"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q706890"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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