Rulan Chao Pian

Rulan Chao Pian
卞趙如蘭
Pian in 1942
Born(1922-04-20)April 20, 1922
DiedNovember 30, 2013(2013-11-30) (aged 91)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Known forStudy of music in China, Chinese opera.
Spouse
(m. 1945; died 2009)
Scientific career
FieldsEthnomusicology, Asian studies
InstitutionsHarvard University

Rulan Chao Pian (née Rulan Chao; April 20, 1922 November 30, 2013), was an ethnomusicologist and scholar of Chinese language and literature and was one of the first ten female full professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She was born and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.