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6 X 10 Long.P65 Cambridge University Press 0521027241 - Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949 Yung-chen Chiang Index More information Index Academia Sinica, 11, 51, 94, 164, 174, 181, support by, 40–44; student work of, 182, 183, 184, 185, 190, 198, 199, 211, 232 26–27; and Yanjing Sociology Adams, T. S., 87 Department, 32–34, 37–39 agrarian crisis, 11, 165, 166, 167, 169, 174, 175, 176, 179, 184, 189, 190, 193, 195, 197, Cai, Hesen, 142 198, 203, 206, 212, 218, 262; Chen Cai, Yuanpei, 164, 166, 181, 182 Hansheng’s notion of and departure California, University of (Berkeley), 2, 3, from Kautsky’s, 174–177, 187–189, 4, 83 192–198; Kautsky’s notion of, 174–177, Cambridge University, 5, 238 193–194 Cao, Rulin, 81 Alley, Rewi, 216 Carnegie Corporation, 3, 252 Alsberg, Carl, 93, 225 Carter, Edward, 90, 91, 95, 104, 212, 215, Amano, Motonosuke, 209, 210 217, 218, 219, 223, 224, 225, 245, 246 Cheeloo (Shangtung Christian) University, Balfour, Marshall, 131, 236, 238, 252 52, 67, 68, 125, 253 Berlin, University of, 162 Chen, C. C., 250 Bi, Xianghui, 119 Chen, Da, 55, 240, 241 Blaisdell, Thomas, 32 Chen, Duxiu, 139 Blumer, Herbert, 4 Chen, Eugene, 50 Borchardt, Julian, 142 Chen, Guangyuan, 80 Boxer Indemnity, the, 82, 86, 160, 231 Chen, Hansheng, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, Boynton, Grace, 237 22, 118, 136, 158, 159, 200, 203, 222, 254, Brandt, Loren, 261, 262, 263 255, 257; and Academia Sinica, 164–166, Brinton, Crane, 4 182–183; and Agnes Smedley, 179–180, British-American Tobacco Company, 213 216; Amano Motonosuke on, 210–211; Brockman, Fletcher, 32 Baoding survey of, 173–174, 175, 183, Buck, J. Lossing, 23, 91, 150, 167, 169, 170, 190; on China’s agrarian crisis, 167–169, 174, 176, 201–205, 212, 234, 244–245, 187–189, 192–198; clandstine and 250–251 Comintern activities of, 179–181, Buck, Pearl, 240 215–216; conceptualization crisis of, Bucklin, H. S., 23 174–179; conversion to Marxism, Bukharin, Nikolai, 140, 141 162–163; education in China, 159–160; Bureau of Agriculture and Industry education and sojourns in the U.S., (Canton), 15 160–161, 217–220; exile in India, 220; Bureau of Markets (Shanghai), 15 exiles in Moscow, 163–164, 216; Burgess, John Stewart, 23, 25, 27; arrives in Guangdong survey of, 190–198, 215, 218, Peking, 25, 26; returns to the U.S., 45; 264; hostility encountered during and Peking Students’ Social Service fieldwork, 265–266; ignored by Club, 28–31; social service philosophy Rockefeller Foundation, 210–211; and of, 34–37; solicitations of foundation Institute of Pacific Relations, 211–212, 293 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521027241 - Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949 Yung-chen Chiang Index More information Index Chen, Hansheng (cont.) Davis, Merle, 224 217–220; J. Lossing Buck challenged by, Day, Edmund, 104, 247 169–170, 174, 201; Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Debate on Neo-Authoritarianism, 260 Henan, and Shaanxi surveys of, 184–190, Debate on the Nature of Agrarian China, 196, 265; as leader of Society for the 204, 208 Study of China’s Agrarian Economy, Ding, Ji, 112 198, 210; legacy in the Chinese Studies Ding, Wenjiang, 94, 232, 233, 260 community in the U.S., 261–264; legacy Ding Xian. See Mass Education of obliterated in the PRC, 220–221; and Movement Richard Sorge, 180–181, 198, 213, 215; Dittmer, C. G., 23 shift to agrarian research,166; Tao Donald, William, 15 Menghe distanced by, 167; tobacco Duara, Prasenjit, 116, 118, 119 production survey of, 212–215; returns to China prior to the MaCarthy Edwards, Dwight, 25, 33 inquisition, 220; Wuxi survey of, Elliot, Harrison, 223 171–173, 175, 177, 178, 179, 183, 190, 263; Engels, Friedrich, 142 Yunnan and Xikang survey of, 219 Chen, Hongjin, 219 Fairbank, Wilma, 239, 241 Chen, Lifu, 181 Fan, Yuanlian, 232 Chen, Xujing, 112 Fang, Xianting. See H. D. Fong Chen, Zhenhan, 112 Faure, David, 197, 261, 262, 264 Chengzhi hui (Society for the Fulfillment Fei, Xiaotong, 171, 258; as academic of Life’s Ambitions), 83, 89 entrepreneur, 239–241; as director of Chiang, Kai-shek, 50, 151, 163, 166, 173, Yanjing-Yunnan Station, 73–74; 181, 199, 204, 219, 248 education in England, 71; and Elton Chicago, University of, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 17, 18, Mayo, 240–241; functionalism of, 59–63; 51–52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 161, 239 and Lin Yaohua, 239–240; and Chin, Rockwood, 83 Malinowski, 57, 73, 240, 241; as member China Foundation for the Promotion of of Sociology Wing, 56; on rural Education and Culture, 44, 82, 88, 89, 92, industries, 133; in the U.S., 239–241; and 93, 94, 167, 173, 183, 232–233 Wu Wenzao, 56–57, 241 China Institute of Economics (Shanghai), Feng, Huade, 112, 113, 126 133–134 Feng, Yuxiang, 173, 181 China International Famine Relief Field, Frederick, 218 Commission, 49 Fisher, Galen, 44 Chinese Communist Party, 11, 29, 77, 136, Fisher, Irving, 9, 17, 87, 88 138, 140, 144–146, 156, 157, 164, 191, 200, Fong, H. D., 8, 83, 112, 126, 217; during 204, 215, 218, 219, 220, 254, 258 WWII, 129, 130, 131–132; and Franklin Chinese Student Protection Act, 268 Ho, 8, 89, 100, 106, 107, 113, 133; Chinese Students’ Alliance in the United Gaoyang project, 119–123; joins the UN, States of America, 161 135; on Nankai administrators 85; Collêge de France, 257 reverse language barrier of, 20; as College of Languages, 26 Rockefeller Foundation fellow in the Columbia University, 2, 3, 4, 7, 16, 17, 18, U.S. 244; Tianjin Industrialization 26, 29, 45, 54, 55, 94, 135, 223, 225, 242, Project, 98–100 245 Fosdick, Raymond, 228, 250 Commission for Rural Rehabilitation, Fu, Sinian, 182 184 Commonwealth Fund, 40–42, 89, 93 Gailey, Robert, 25, 26, 34, 37 Condliffe, John B., 91, 92, 93, 94, 97, 104, Galbraith, John Kenneth, 4 211, 224, 225, 226, 250, 251 Gamble, Sidney, 20, 23, 31, 33, 35, 38, 43, Copenhagen, University of, 5 48, 242, 243 Cornell University, 2, 4, 112 Gee, N. G., 65 Customs College, 26 Government Bureau of Economic Information, 15 Dagong bao (L’Impartial), 89 Grant, John B., 39, 66, 68, 71, 125, 128, 131, Dartmouth College, 54 134, 247, 248, 249, 250 294 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521027241 - Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949 Yung-chen Chiang Index More information Index Greene, Jerome, 228 China Academy, 87; and Zhang Boling, Grinevich, Pyotr, 162 84, 87, 88, 101–102 Gu, Jiegang, 231 Holland, William, 97, 104, 124, 212, 216, Gunn, Selskar, 53, 124, 131, 134, 210, 211, 217, 218, 219, 226, 244, 251 236, 247, 248, 253, 254; China Program Houghton, Henry, 250 of, 64–71, 125, 128, 227, 228–229, 251; Hsiao, Kung-ch’üan, 83 Eastern European experience of, Hsu, Francis (Xu Langguang), 73 227–228; on John B. Grant, 248–250; and Hsu, Leonard, 39, 218, 238; background Li Anzhai, 237, 252; on Nankai, 107–109; and portrayal of, 48–49; trip to China, 63–64, 104; on Yanjing, entrepreneurship of, 49–50; joins 65–68; and Yanjing-Nankai competition government service, 51, 54; joins for Rockefeller funds, 235–236 Yanjing, 38, 48; as leader of Social Guo, Moruo, 209 Service Wing at Yanjing, 49, 71; and Guomindang (Nationalist Party; Rockefeller Foundation, 51–52, 53, 66, Kuomintang), 11, 50, 51, 95, 98, 137, 138, 71, 247 139, 144, 145, 149, 162, 180, 181, 182, 204, Hsu, Ruth (Mrs. Leonard Hsu), 48 262, 266 Hu, Shi, 139, 141, 162, 218, 232, 233, 236, 260 Haass, Lily, 39 Huang, Di, 56 Han, Dezhang, 174 Huang, Guogao, 213 Han, Mingmo, 77 Huang, Philip, 197, 202, 214, 261, 262, Hani, Goro¯, 209 264 Harvard University, 2, 3, 4, 17, 29, 71, 84, 112, 161, 238, 239, 241 Illinois, University of, 4 Haskins, Charles, 161 Institute of Economics and History He, Lian. See Franklin Ho (University of Copenhagen), 5 He, Shizhen, 144, 145 Institute of International Studies Heiser, Victor, 249 (Geneva), 5 Higher Normal College, 26 Institute of Pacific Relations, 7, 9, 11, 12, Hirano, Yoshitaro¯, 209 13, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100, Ho, Franklin, 8, 83, 85, 103, 212, 217; and 101, 103, 104, 107, 108, 109, 109, 113, 123, China Council of the Institute of Pacific 124, 134, 210, 211, 212, 215, 217, 218, 219, Relations, 93, 101, 233–234; competition 220, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 233–234, 244, with Yanjing, 234–236; education in the 245, 251, 254, 255 U.S., 87–88; entrepreneurial beginnings Institute of Pacific Relations: China and early struggles, 88–89, 92–94; in Council, 93, 94, 96, 101, 212, 219, 234, government service, 128–130; and 245 H. D. Fong, 8, 89, 106, 107, 113; Institute of Social and Religious Research Industrialization in Tianjin project of, (New York), 43, 44, 93, 232 94–96, 98–100; and Institute of Pacific Institute of Social Science (University of Relations, 94–101, 103, 104, 107, 109, Stockholm), 5 113, 123, 124, 134, 212, 233–234, 244–246, 250; and Irving Fisher, 9, 18, 88; and Japan, 8, 9, 25, 32, 56, 70, 72, 75, 76, 79, 81, Jincheng Banking Corporation, 124–125, 91, 111, 126, 133, 168, 208, 209, 210, 215, 133, 134; joins Columbia University, 135; 217, 218, 257 joins Nankai, 83; and Karl Wittfogel, Jendao (L’Humanite), 29 245–246; and North China Council for Jiang, Tingfu, 19, 20, 83, 86 Rurual Reconstruction, 126–128; Jinan University, 83 population movement to Manchuria Jincheng Banking Corporation, 124, 125, project of, 95–97; post-WWII ambition 133, 134 of, 133–135; as R.
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