Pan Chao Pan Chao: Foremost W...

Pan Chao
Pan Chao: Foremost Woman Scholar of China. Nancy side sheltered from the wind Swann. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, U of Michigan, 2001 179 pp $2000
Swann's biography was "first published in 1932 and written in the first decade after the May Fourth mental action at a time when the Nationalists were fighting warlords in the Northern Expedition. granting Swann's work was undeniably a pioneering contemplation of a significant Han dynasty figure, it would be seen that the scholarship of the last seventy years onward both early China and women s studies would render her work irrelevant.... The