Sarah Allan (simplified Chinese: 艾兰; traditional Chinese: 艾蘭; pinyin: Ài Lán; born 1945) is an American paleographer and scholar of ancient China. She was a Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College; she is currently affiliated to the University of California, Berkeley. She is Chair for the Society for the Study of Early China[1] and Editor of Early China.[2] Previously, she was Senior Lecturer in Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.[3] She is best known for her interdisciplinary approach to the mythological and philosophical systems of early Chinese civilization.