# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yu-chien-kuan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:54:31.839Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yu-chien-kuan"
name: "Yu-chien Kuan"
slug: "yu-chien-kuan"
description: "Yu-chien Kuan or Guan Yuqian was a Chinese-born German sinologist, writer and translator. The son of a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official, he was denounced as a \"rightist\" and persecuted during the Anti-Rightist Campaign and the Cultural Revolution. This drove him to escape from China using a Japanese passport stolen from his workplace. He landed in Egypt and spent a year and half in prison for illegal entry, before being admitted to West Germany in 1969 as a political refugee."
tagline: "German university teacher and writer (1931–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yu-chien-kuan-2009-ffm-002.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-02-18"
deathDate: "2018-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.1
  momentum:             0.3634085213032581
  historical:           5.296438666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-chien_Kuan"
    title: "Yu-chien Kuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ياو كين كوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-chien_Kuan"
    title: "Yu-chien Kuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%97%9C%E6%84%9A%E8%AC%99"
    title: "關愚謙"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-dog_Kuan"
    title: "Yu-dog Kuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-chien_Kuan"
    title: "Yu-chien Kuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105543"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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