Wu Han (1909-), historian and university professor, was known before 1949 primarily as a leading authority on the Ming dynasty. He served after 1952 as a deputy mayor of Peking and as vice chairman of the China Democratic League until his political disgrace in 1966. The Iwu district of Chekiang was the native place of […]
P'an Kuang-tan (1898-), sociologist, essayist, and propagandist for national betterment through eugenics. He was noted for his studies of family and clan genealogies. Born in Paoshan, Kiangsu, P'an Kuang-tan was the son of P'an Hung-ting, a chin-shih who was a member of the Hanlin Academy. According to P'an Kuang-tan, his family "belonged half to the […]
Ch'en Ta 陳達 Ch'en Ta (1892-), sociologist and demographer, taught at Tsinghua University (1923-51) and published studies of Chinese labor, migration, and population. From 1938 to 1948 he directed the Institute of Census Research, developed a census program, and made demographic investigations of the Kunming area. After 1958, Ch'en came under Communist censure temporarily because […]
