# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/y-c-james-yen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:57:11.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/y-c-james-yen"
name: "Y. C. James Yen"
slug: "y-c-james-yen"
description: "Y. C. James Yen, known to his many English speaking friends as \"Jimmy,\" was a Chinese educator and organizer known for his work in mass literacy and rural reconstruction, first in China, then in many countries."
tagline: "Chinese educator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Y._C._James_Yen.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Educators"
  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1890"
deathDate: "1990-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.31
  momentum:             0.4139834406623735
  historical:           5.707418666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 164
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Yen"
    title: "James Yen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y._C._James_Yen"
    title: "Y. C. James Yen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Yen"
    title: "James Yen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E6%99%8F%E9%98%B3%E5%88%9D"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%87%D1%83"
    title: "Янь Янчу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%99%8F%E9%99%BD%E5%88%9D"
    title: "晏陽初"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8045741"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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