The social network of Pan Yuliang's early career as a modernist artist and an art educator in the period of the Republic of China resonated with larger social - political movements at that time: from the cultural construct of «New Woman» and the New Culture Movement, to the revolution and reform launched by the Nationalist
Party and early Communists and the rise of modern nationalism in China, and from the end of World
War I to the
Japanese Invasion in 1937.