摘要Early studies in China and the United States Fan-lan Tai(戴芳澜,1893-1973)was born in Jiangling,Hubei Province,to a dwindling family.of bureaucratic landowners(Fig.1).His grandfather,Hongxi Tai(戴洪禧),was a local town-ship official in Longquan,Zhejiang Province.His father,Jing Tai(戴经),was a senior licentiate in the late Qing dynasty.His mother died when he was 8 years old.When he was 12,he attended the Higher Primary School affiliated with Nanyang Mission College in Shanghai.He withdrew from school for a year because of his family's financial predicament.He was transferred to Wuchang Wenhua School,where he again withdrew the following year.In 1907,Fan-lan Tai and his brother entered Shanghai Aurora School,a missionary school with a focus on French teaching,laying a firm academic foundation and reinforcing his desire to continue studying.