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Quentin Pan in The China Critic | China Heritage Quarterly

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We are to-day, like Hercules, facing a crossroad. The newer points of view beckon us from one direction, while the older ones are yet powerful enough to attract us from another; and many of us are unable to reach a decision. —Quentin Pan[1] The American-trained evolutionary biologist, sociologist and eugenicist Quentin Pan (Pan Guangdan 潘光旦, 1899-1967) was a founding editor of and regular contributor to The China Critic. A prolific scholar whose collected works number some fourteen volumes, Pan was a pioneer in the fields of sociology, ethnology and anthropology, and his name is familiar to many scholars of modern China. Pan repeatedly appears in histories of social and human sciences in China, though a full English-language study of him has yet to be written.[2] This study introduces Pan's life and work, in tandem with a close reading of a selection of articles that he wrote for The China Critic in the late 1920s and early 1930s. These articles offer an excellent point of entry into P

CHINA HERITAGE QUARTERLY China Heritage Project , The Australian National University --> ISSN 1833-8461 Nos. 30/31, June/September 2012 Home Editorial Features T'ien Hsia Articles Glossary New Scholarship Behind the Scenes Links RSS Search FEATURES Quentin Pan in The China Critic | China Heritage Quarterly Quentin Pan 潘光旦 in The China Critic Leon Antonio Rocha Emmanuel College University of Cambridge* We are to-day, like Hercules, facing a crossroad. The newer points of view beckon us from one direction, while the older ones are yet powerful enough to attract us from anoth

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