Ann Elizabeth Paludan (née Murray; 1928–30 October 2014) was a British author of several books on Chinese history, sculpture and architecture.

[1] Her parents had split up when she was young and her father died in Spain when she was eight, so her visits to her grandparents gave a welcome sense of continuity.

After graduating she worked as a British diplomat,[2] marrying John Ernest Powell-Jones[3] in December 1949[4] and starting a life abroad in 1949.

[1] Her son, Sir Mark Jones, was born on 5 February 1951;[5] he was an art historian and museum director and has been Master of St Cross College, Oxford since 2011.

[10] Ann Paludan researched the history of China and wrote a number of authoritative and widely cited books: