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The Institute of Modern History, Peita and the Central Institute of Nationalities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Extract

This is a report about the Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with supplementary notes on Peita and the Central Institute of Nationalities, all of which I visited while in China between 15 December 1975 and 13 January 1976.

Type
Report from China
Copyright
Copyright © The China Quarterly 1977

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References

1. For Fan Wen-Ian, see Klein, Donald W. and Clark, Anne B., Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921–65, 2 Vols. ( Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971 ), Vol. I, pp. 264–67Google Scholar; Boorman, Howard L. and Howard, Richard C. (eds.), Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, 4 vols. ( New York: Columbia University Press, 19671971), Vol. II, pp. 1113Google Scholar; The information given in these sources varies somewhat from that given me at the interview.

2. Allusion to the Liang-shan braves in the Water Margin.

3. The numbers actually add up to 165. This may be due to overlapping responsibilities of some members of the Institute.

4. Tikhvinski, S. L. (ed.), The New History of China (in Russian)(Moscow: Nauka, 1972)Google Scholar; I am indebted to Dr Steven I. Levine for identifying this book.

5. The Lu Hsün Memorial Hall in Shanghai was inaugurated in 1956. The exhibition on his four-stage intellectual growth was redesigned after the Cultural Revolution.

6. See The China Quarterly, No. 62 (1975), pp. 285–92Google Scholar;