Nancy Lee Swann, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1881
Date of Death: 15-May-1966
Profession: librarian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Nancy Lee Swann
- Nancy Lee Swann (b.
- 9 Feb 1881 Tyler, Texas; d.
- 15 May 1966 El Paso, Texas) was an American Sinologist and curator of the Gest Memorial Chinese Library at Princeton University from 1931 until her retirement in 1948.
- Her best known scholarly publication were Pan Chao: Foremost Woman Scholar of China, published by the American Historical Association in 1932 and Food and Money in Ancient China, an annotated scholarly translation of the economic chapters of the Han Shu, published by Princeton University Press in 1950. Swann was likely the first woman to receive a PhD in Chinese history in the United States.
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