Pan Chao

Foremost Woman Scholar of China

Bibliographic Data

ID5145404
AuthorsJ K Shryock, Nancy Lee Swann
Year1933
Volume53
Issue1
Pages91
Publication date1933-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/593207
OpenAlexW1994532465
LanguageEN
Citations received12

First published in 1932, this book is perhaps the earliest work by an American scholar on a Chinese woman intellectual. Nancy Lee Swann presents a sketch of the Eastern Han period when lived and wrote, of her family background, and of the literary milieu of which she was a part. In addition, Swann provides translations of writings definitively identified with that survive from the years when she was active (ca. 89--105 a.d.).While is well known for her contribution to the great Han-shu, of special interest is her treatise on the moral training of women, in which she makes a plea for girls to be given the same education as boys and points to principles that led young women to success in ancient China. Swann also includes memorials, short poems, and an essay, all of which demonstrate Pan's rhetorical skills and her concerns at the Han court.A considerable work of scholarship, Pan Chao is grounded in Swann's detailed knowledge of the history and literature of the late Han and it includes the Chinese for shorter works and a comprehensive list of primary sources on this important early scholar

Aesthetics · Art · China · Literature · Period (music) · Plea · Poetry · Political science · Rhetorical question · Scholarship · Sketch · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law