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A. Doak Barnett papers, 1929-2010, bulk 1940-1999
92 linear feetJoint Committee on Contemporary China, 1963-1980 Box 137
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Joint Committee on Contemporary China, 1963-1980 Box 138
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- Joint Committee on Contemporary China, 1963-1980
C. Martin Wilbur papers, 1950-1992
53 linear feetCorrespondence, subject files, manuscripts and printed materials documenting the work of C. Martin Wilbur, George Sansom Professor Emeritus of Chinese History, Columbia University. Correspondence with non-Columbia organizations includes the Institute of Pacific Relations, Far Eastern Association, INDUSCO, Council on Foreign Relations, Asia Foundation, and American Council of Learned Societies, among others. Subject files relevant to Columbia University include items pertaining to the Department of Chinese and Japanese, later renamed the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, as well as teaching files, student files and research projects directed. The manuscript files contain the notes and, in some cases, printed copies of published and unpublished works and public talks. Wilbur's writings and research concentrate on the history and politics of twentieth century China, with emphasis on the Chinese Revolution, 1920-1929, Sun Yat-sen, and communism in China. There are translations of minutes for the first and second Kuomintang Congresses, copies of documents from the Kuomintang Archives, and photographs of members of the Young China Party, Sun Yat-sen and several historical events in the 1920s. Files on fund raising efforts for the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Wellington Koo Fellowship also contain relevant correspondence. Biographical information includes a curriculum vitae (ca. 1968)
Social Science Research Council Box 17
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In the 1950s the Ford Foundation was moving toward extensive promotion of Chinese studies. Primarily on the initiative of John Fairbank, but with CMW as one of three conveners, American scholars specializing in modern China met in June 1959 at Gould House to consider what must be done to stimulate and facilitate the study of contemporary China, which was virtually closed to American scholarship, but which had obvious world importance. As an outcome of that conference the Ford Foundation made a grant to be administered by the Social Science Research Council for a Joint Committee on Contemporary China (The "joint" referring to the American Council of Learned Societies). CMW was a member of that committee during its formative years when it laid out policy and planned for the most effective use of funds available. The committee became the model for many more area studies committees established under SSRC and ACLS, thereafter. In late 1962 CMW became a member of a Committee on Exchanges with Asian Institutions under SSRC auspices and using a Ford Foundation grant, with the purpose of sending American scholars to Japan and Taiwan to reestablish contact with local scholars. This went on for about five years, and many American scholars had the opportunity for a refresher year in Taiwan or Japan. In the above activities, CMW had to travel quite a bit for meetings, and had to judge of the merits of various proposals. See also Box 14 Harvard-Fairbank file