# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yang-xianyi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:24:17.674Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yang-xianyi"
name: "Yang Xianyi"
slug: "yang-xianyi"
description: "Yang Xianyi was a Chinese literary translator, known for rendering many ancient and a few modern Chinese classics into English, including Dream of the Red Mansions."
tagline: "Chinese literary translator (1915–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yang_Xianyi_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-01-10"
deathDate: "2009-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.9
  momentum:             0.293282876064333
  historical:           7.239168
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2eb3ccc4-fc51-4055-bd7d-2d3610865129"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "يانج اكسيانى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Xianyi"
    title: "Yang Xianyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Xianyi"
    title: "Yang Xianyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Xianyi"
    title: "Yang Xianyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Xianyi"
    title: "Yang Xianyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Xianyi"
    title: "Yang Xianyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%A8%E5%AE%AA%E7%9B%8A"
    title: "杨宪益"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1061283"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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