Pan Guangdan

Some of his most influential works include The Eugenic Question in China (中国之优生问题) and Chinese Family Problems (中国之家庭问题)(1928).

In these works, Pan promoted the family structure over individualism, which he believed, along with traditional marriage, to be most effective in racial improvement through biological inheritance.

[3] In a 1937 volume of essays, "Minzu texing yu minzu weisheng" (民族 特性 与 民族 卫生 Racial characteristics and racial hygiene) Pan argued that government programs of health and reconstruction were of no use if the majority of the people were of low quality.

He included his translations from the works of Ellsworth Huntington and the American missionary Arthur H. Smith's 1894 book Chinese Characteristics.

Eugenics as a newly established discipline should not, he believed, become entangled with dubious claims about superior races, since every “color” of people shared both the good and the bad germplasm distributed in its own population.