Background
Bao was born in Rangoon, Burma in 1949.
historian professor researcher
Bao was born in Rangoon, Burma in 1949.
Her 2006 book, Holding Up More Than Half the Sky, Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-1992, is considered to be a pioneering study. Bao died of breast cancer in 2006. A scholarship for the school is named in her honor.