Editing Chie Nakane (section)

==Education and career==
Nakane was born in Tokyo and spent her teenage years in Beijing.<ref>Joy Hendry, "An Interview with Chie Nakane," ''Current Anthropology'', Vol. 30, No. 5, December 1989, p. 643.</ref> She graduated from [[Tsuda College]] in 1947 and then completed her graduate work specializing in [[China]] and [[Tibet]] at the University of Tokyo in 1952. In 1953–1957, she did fieldwork in India and studied in the [[London School of Economics]]. Nakane served as visiting professor in the Department of Anthropology at the [[University of Chicago]] at the invitation of [[Sol Tax]] from 1959 to 1960 and as Visiting Lecturer in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the [[University of London]] at the invitation of [[Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf]] in 1960–1961.<ref>Joy Hendry, "An Interview with Chie Nakane," ''Current Anthropology'', Vol. 30, No. 5, December 1989, p. 644.</ref>

In 1970, Nakane became the first female professor at the University of Tokyo, where she served as Director of the Institute of Oriental Culture from 1980 to 1982. She was also Professor at [[Osaka University]] and the [[National Museum of Ethnology (Japan)|National Museum of Ethnology]] and visiting professor at [[Cornell University]] from 1975 to 1980. Nakane retired from the University of Tokyo in 1987.<ref>Joy Hendry, "An Interview with Chie Nakane," ''Current Anthropology'', Vol. 30, No. 5, December 1989, p. 648.</ref> In 1995, she became the first and only female member of the [[Japan Academy]]. She was also an honorary member of the [[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]].