About Ann Paludan
Lived 1928 – 2014 (aged 85–86). Ann Paludan was a historian and author.
Ann Elizabeth Paludan (née Murray; 1928 – 30 October 2014) was a British author of several books on Chinese history, sculpture and architecture.
Biography Ann Paludan was one of two daughters of Pauline Mary ( Newton) and Basil Murray. Her father was the second son of the eminent classical scholar Gilbert Murray and his wife, Mary ( Howard). Ann would visit her grandparents at Yatscombe, on Boars Hill, particularly during her undergraduate years in St Hugh's College, Oxford when she cycled up to Yatscombe every Sunday.
Janus Paludan (1920–2004), a Danish diplomat, had served as Danish Ambassador to the Congo 1962–1965 and to Brazil 1968–1972, and he and Ann married before he took up the post of Danish Ambassador to China in 1972.
Books Ann Paludan researched the history of China and wrote a number of authoritative and widely cited books:
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British writer
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Ann Paludan was born in 1928.
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Ann Paludan died in 2014.
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Ann Paludan was a historian and author.
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