CHINA TASK FORCE NEWSLETTER

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CHINA TASK FORCE NEWSLETTER
OCI-2048-67
8 December 1967
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China Task Force Address: OCI/CTF, Room 5G19
Secretariat: Extension 4028 Black,9376 Red
(NOTE: Data in the Newsletter is limited to SECRET classification)
INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES
.1. The Office of Economic Research will be issuing within
the next few days a personnel assignment :List, which will
all current assignments in the new China Division. 1A
Red 9002, is handling this item.
25X1A 2. The DDI Summer Intern Program for Graduate Students
had been approved for the summer of 1968. Of the 18 a roved
slots, eight are for China (OCI-2, OER-1, OBGI-3, PEC
OSR-1). If you are interested in informing your colleagues
l in the academic world of this program, please cal E R
DDI Coordinator for Academic Relations, for coordination an 1A
any additional information. He is on extension 7510, Rm. 1H1122.
3. Due to a schedule conflict, the OSI China Committee
will meet on the second Tuesday of each month, instead of the
first Monday as announced in Newsletter #5.
PRODUCTION SUPPORT ACTIVITIES
1. During June and July the National Science Foundation
awarded $32,200 to the National Federation of Science Abstracting
and Indexing Services for acquisition and announcement of
journals from mainland China. It also granted $26,000 to the
Entomological Society of America for translation and publication
.of Vol XIV of the Acta Entomologica Sinica and $35,000 to the
American Geological Institute for translation and publication
of selected articles from the 1964, 1965, and 1966 issues of
Acta Geologica Sinica. NSF has also-granted $12,300 to the
Instrument Society of America for support in translating 1967
issues of Acta Automatica Sinica.
2. The Acquisitions Branch of Central Reference Service
has received a July issue of a Taipei publication which had
not been previously seen here: Ti-ch'ing Yen-chiu: Kung-fei
Tui-wai Mao-i-chih Yen-pien (Enemy Intelligence Study-Changes
in the Foreign Trade of the Chinese Communists). Also a new
Chinese language monthly, Tung-hsi Wen-hua (Eastern and Western
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Culture) published by the China Academy, Taiwan, was received.
Its contents are mainly historical. (See Attachment A)
For further information on both these journals call AB/CRS,
Ext. 3404).
3. The Central Broadcasting Station, Taipei, issues a
weekly serial Pen-chou Tui Ta-lu Hsin-than Kuang-po Chu-ti
(This Week's Main Subjects of PsyWar Broadcasts to the
Mainland). CRS/Acquisitions Branch (Ext. 3404) has sample
copies.
4. Journey To Kashgariya and Kun-lun (Puteshestviye
v Kashgariyu i Kung-lun) by Mikhail Vasil'yevich Pevtsov,
initially published in Mosocw in 1949 was issued as a JPRS
translation on 5 September 1967 (JPRS 42,430, 442 pp.)
5. The China Branch, FF/PAC Division, Central Reference
Service issued an Intelligence Memorandum, Personalities Attendin
the 1 October 1967 National Day in Peking, CIA CR M 67-17,
2-6-October 1967 CONFIDENTIAL . The three sections comprising
this memorandum are (1) a positional listing using the ranking
published by the New China News Agency (NCNA) of those attending
Peking's 1967 National Day ceremonies; (2) an alphabetical
arrangement of the positional listing; and (3) another
alphabetical compilation of those significant absentees from the
1 October 1967 festivities who attended any of the eight
cultural revolution rallies from 18 August to 26 November 1966
or the 1 May 1967 (May Day) ceremonies.
6. Attachment B is a list of Chicom serial publications
received in AB/CRS for the period 1 September - 15 November 1967.
8. A memorandum dated 18 October, from the Chairman,
Information Requirements Advisory Group, established a trial
"Procedure for Validation of DD/S&T and DDI Human Source
Requirements". The trial period is 1 November 1967-31 January
1968. Copies of the procedure are available in each office.
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STATSPEC 9. Mis publishing a combined version
of the 1962 an eeing Telephone Directories. (Street
addresses were available in the 1962 version; not in 1965,)
The report will be issued in three volumes, totaling over
1200 pages. It will be CONFIDENTIAL. Dissemination before
Christmas is expected.
PERSONNEL ACTIVITIES
25X1A 1. China Division/OCI, visited Japan,
ore_ Indonesia, North Borneo and
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Philippines on a crowaea schedule (2 Oc m
Science Branch, Asia Division,
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toured the Far East in c.o er-November to survey publication
exploitation. In Japan he visited UFDEC (USARPAC Foreign
Documents Exploitation Center); American Embassy Translation
Branch, Tokyo; 6499th Support Group, Det 1; and the Science
tion of the
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Public Affairs Office), MACV, CDEC (Combined
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25X1C Document Exploitation Center) and the Station Translating
Section; in Bangkok, the Embassy's Political Scc;i:ion and the USIS
Press Officer.
25X1A 3. Resources Branch, China Division, OER,
toured Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong 30 Sep - 23 Oct 1967 to
observe technological measures being used to stimulate
agricultural production to secure first-hand knowledge of
research on Chicom agriculture, and to discuss nutritional
in Hong Kong, the Pres
te General; Union
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methods on which a more effective evaluation of Chicom food
d tions
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American Consulate General, John Wenmons, Agriculture
Attache, and Allen Whiting, Consular General.
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Fenton Babcoc , y
Nethercut and Ross Carr, Political and Economic officers of the
Mr. Huffman o I" ? = or. Quentin ac we o e Naval ea.i ca
Research Unit #2; Taichung Population Studies Center and
Agricultural Experiment Station; Institute of International
Relations; David Dean, Political Section, American Embassy;
m Technical Group; Horig Kam: Richard
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Agricultural Attache; Dr. Kominz of the National Ins
consumption could be made. Among the persons an ope
he talked with and visited were: Tokyo: John Gregory,
Economic Officer of the American Em Sassy; James Frink, Assistant
te of
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25X1A trip report delineates some interesting
comments on agriculture and nutrition in Asia. A copy is on
file in the Secretariat. brought with him some of
the publications of the Insti u e o International Relations,
Republic of China:
a. Chinese Communist Affairs Monthly, Oct 1967
(Forwarded to AB/CRS)
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b. Issues and Studies, Oct 67 (English) (Forwarded to
AB/CRS)
c. Issues and Studies, Oct 67 (Chinese) (Forwarded to
AB/CRS)
d. Catalog of Current Research Publications on
Modern China
e. Index of Research Papers Prepared and Published
by the Institute of International Relations
(Items 4 and 5 are in the CTF Secretariat filed under
Bibliographies and may be seen in Room 5G19).
of the
25X1A 4.
China Branch, Theater Forces Division, USA ME eeks
assignment on the West Coast to review missile production
facilities and Vandenburg Air Force Base,
25X1A 5, of the China/Far East Branch,
Regions na ysi , OSR,-will .be returning in early
December from a six-wee and consultation with
intelligence facilities 25X1A
Ray's main field of in eres is
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returned to Asia Division
on 3 October following completion of fifteen months advance
Chinese training at the 25X1A
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8. Two new China specialists have joined the FR/Par.
25X1A Intelligences an MA from UCLA and 5X1A
25X1A an MA rom Univ. of California, Berkeley.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
1. During the 1966-67 school year there were 303
graduate students concentrating on East Asian Studies at
Columbia University. 100 of these had completed all the
requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation. Of the
203 at the pre-oral level 126 were specializing in China:
25 in traditional China and 101 in 19th and 20th century
China. Of'the 100 preparing dissertations, 56 were writing on
China: 11 on traditional and 45 on modern. In the East
Asia Institute itself (a three year certificate program)
there were 31 first year students, 24 second year, and 23
third year. This total of 78 is a 16 increase over total
enrollment in the previous year.
Among recent activities of the Contemporary China Studies
Committee at Columbia is the initiation of the Research
Project on Leadership in Communist China, with Donald Klein as
Director. Its first products will be two book-length studies,
one on leadership in the economic field by Richard Diao and
one in foreign affairs by Mr. Klein. The committee is also
supporting projects by Richard Sorich to compile a documentary
volume on the Chinese commune and to publish a union list
of major Chinese-language sources on Chicom law; Cecil
Johnson's study of Chinese Communist policy toward Latin
America; O. Edmund Chubb's study of Sino-Soviet Relations;
Chiang Yung-ching's study of Chinese relations with Ho Chi-
minh in the 1930s and 1940s; William Hwang's study of the
Chinese Writers' Union; C. Martin Wilbur's study of the
Chinese Revolution in the 1920s; Carl Riskin's study of the
Chinese economy; Donald Zagoria's work on Chinese and Soviet
policy on Vietnam; and A. Doak Barnett's study of govern-
ment and politics in Communist China.
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Four memoirs in Columbia Oral History Project are in
various stages of completion; General Chang Fa-K'uei, General
Li Tsung-jen, Dr. V.K. Wellington Koo, and Franklin Lien Ho.
(Extracted from: Annual Report of the East Asian Institute,
Columbia University)
2. The biographic files of the American Consulate General,
Hong Kong, are being microfilmed, as we reported earlier. Copies
will be deposited in the Union Research Institute, Hong Kong;
Columbia University; and at Stanford University with John
Lewis as custodian. The project of microfilming is now near-
ing completion.
3. The current membership of the Joint Committee on
Contemporary China is Walter Galenson (Cornell), Fred Mote
(Princeton), Bob Scalapino (U. of Cal.), George Taylor
(U. of Washington), Ezra Vogel (Harvard), and Albert Feuer-
werker (Michigan).
4. The support of centers for Chinese language and
area studies by the office of Education, HEW, under the
National Defense Education Act of 1958 is summarized in
Attachment C (unclassified).
5. Rutgers University is inaugurating a Far East
Department, to be headed by Dr. Ardath Burk, formerly of the
Government Department and a specialist on Japanese govern-
ment.
6. Dr. Lucien Pye, MIT, will be moving to Princeton
University. No further data available at present.
7. David S. Nivison, Professor of Chinese and Philosophy,
Stanford,was awarded the Prix Stanislas-Julien in. May 1967
for his recent book The Life and Thoughtof Chang'Hsue'h-
ch'eng. The Prix Stanislas-Julien is awarded annually,
since 1873, for "the best work concerning China" in the
Western World.
8. In addition to the Ford Foundation grants for
Chinese programs, mentioned in Newsletter #3 (Berkeley
$900,000; Columbia $1,200,000; Cornell $500,000; Harvard
$1,500,000; Michigan $900,000; and $500,000 to help establish
a China Materials Development Center) Ford also made four
grants for Chinese studies programs in Britain: University
of Leeds $50,000; Contemporary China Institute, London
University $325,000; School of Oriental and African
Studies, London University $175,000; and London School
of Economics $280,000. There was also a $250,000 grant
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to the National Committee on United States-China Relations
to stimulate public discussion about contemporary China.
This is a total of $6,580,000 for China programs.
9. The Social Sciences Research Council's Committee
on Exchange with Asian Institutions has appointed Marius
B. Jansen, Professor of History, Princeton, for a research
assignment on Japanese influences on the Chinese and
Benjamin I. Schwartz, Professor of History and Government,
Harvard, for research on Chinese intellectual history. Both
appointments are in Tokyo and are parts of a program to
facilitate participation of American social scientists in
development of research and communication with scholars at
the Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library), Tokyo and The Institute
of Modern History Academia Sinica, Taipei.
10. A new journal devoted "solely to the publication
of translations of high literary value" will make its
debut in the spring of 1968. Titled K'uei Hsing,' A
Repository of Asian Literature in Translation, each issue
wi.il consist of about 200 pp. of translations from litera-
ture, history, and folklore of East Asia. It will be
edited by Liu Wu-chi, Professor and Chairman of the East
Asian Languages and Literature Department at Indiana Uni-
versity and Friedrick Bischoff.
11. The Secretariat has on file in Dutch the program
and speech summaries of the "China Week held in Amsterdam
9-14 October. Offical participants were Owen Lattimore,
K. S. Karol, Stuart Schram, Han Suyin, Edgar Snow, Professor
W. F. Wertheim, E. P. J. Cammelbeech, W. L. Brugsma,
Drs. Fenna v.d. Burg, Dr. P. G. J. Korteiveg, O. Heldring,
Theo Stibbe, Dr. P. Baehr and Dr. L. v.d. Land.
12. News from the Center for Chinese: Studies, Uni-
versity of California, Berkeley:
a. Noriyuki Tokuda, of the Asian Economic Research
Institute (Ajia Keizai Kenkyu-jo) has joined the Center
for at least one year. He will be completing a study on Yenan
Communism.
b. Also joining the center are two Australians,
Neal and Deirdre Hunter, who left China in April 1967
after having taught English for 21 months at the Shanghai
Foreign Language Institute. They will write a book on
Communist China.
c. The Center is planning four monographs this
year, three of which have been decided upon:
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(1) Chinese youth movement, by James Townsend,
Professor of Political Science.
(2) The Ssu-ch' ing /four cl.earanc'es7 campaign,
by Richard Baum and F. Teiwis.
25X1A (3) An analysis of a sixteen volume collection
of Chicom historical vignettes entitled flung-ch'i P'iao-piao -
The Red Flaa Flutters, '7417) has
revewecLibrary'of ;ongress , o ings of these vignettes.?
d. The Center hopes to sponsor a scholarly conference
on Communist China in Berkeley sometime in 1969. Main subject
may be the Chinese army.
13. Ohio State University.is offering a Chinese Language
Study Tour to Taiwan for the Spring.Quarter.2 March - 7 June,
1968. It includes a short period at Ohio State and 8 Yeeks
in Taiwan. Prerequisite: 15 semester hours (25 quarter hours)
accruable by 25 March. Cost is approximately $1650. Application
address available from CTF Secretariat.
14. New Asia College in Hong Kong is working on the
completion of a Cantonese Dictionary to be used in conjunc-
tion with its language program. (No further details
available at present.)
15. The National Bureau of Standards has published A
Grammar for Component Combination in Chinese Characters, by
B. Kirk Rankin, et al. it is available rom GPO for 60 cents.
(NBS Technical Note 296; 117 pp.)
16. On 18 November 1967, the Institute of Sino-American
Studies, held a seminar in San Francisco on US-China Relations
(jointly sponsored by the Hoover Institution, the American
Academy of Asian Studies and the American-Asia Friendship
Foundation. The program consisted of 4 panel discussions,
2 of them on US-China Relations,. Past and Present, and one
panel each on Existing Pro ems in US-C ina Relations and
Future US-China Relations. Participants included Hugh Baker,
San Francisco State College; Tinn Hugh Yu (Host), Institute
of Sino-American Studies; W. Glenn Campbell, Hoover; Edszen
N. Landrum, American Academy of Asian Studies; Edward T. Le
Fevour, Mills College; Franz Michael, George Washington U.;
Richard Donald, Dept. of State; George Taylor, Univ. of
Washington, Theodore Chen, U. of S. California; Shih-hsiang
Chen, U. of California, Berkeley; Samuel Griffith, Hoover;
Lisa Hobbs, San Francisco Examiner; Jay McCullough, San Jose
State College; Stefan Possony, Hoover; Pung Fai Tso, Univ. of
Santa Clara and Foothill College; Yuan-li Wu, U. of San
Francisco.
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A similar seminar was held in 1966 on the subject China's
Cultural Heritage and. Foreign Relations. Participants included
most of those list61-above, plus Vincent Shih, U. of Washington;
Robert Scalapino, U. of California, Berkeley; David Rowe, Yale
University; Karl Brandt, Stanford U.; S. T. Tung; Wm. S.
McBirnie, Glendale United Community Church; and Paul Walp,
Inst. of Sino-American Studies. The transcript of th.L.s
seminar was recently published and a copy is available for
loan from the CTF Secretariat. (Material received from
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25X1A 17. The National Committee on United States China Relations,
777 United Nations Plaza, New York, New York, 10017 has issued
a compact bibliography on China, titled An Arrn6tated'Guide to
Modern China. It lists sixty-six monographs plus six periodicals
under eleven headings: (1) China: Background and General
Survey; (2) Communist Rise to Power, (3-9 all devoted to
Communist China); (3) General; (4) Industry and Economy;
(5) Agriculture; (6) Social; (7) Mao Tse--tung; (8) Military;
(9) Foreign Policy; (10) American-Chinese Relations; and (11)
Periodicals. Bibliography sells for 25 cents.
18. Academic Meetings Held and Forthcoming:
A. Meetings Held
.(l) The annual Upstate New York Conference on
Asia was he.. at-- Syracuse University on 6-7 October.
(2) The Western Regional Conference of the
Association of Asian Studies was held at the Univ.
of New Mexico, 20-21 October. Seventeen colleges
from seven states were represented.
(3) Attendence at the 27th International
Congress of Orientalists in Ann Arbor, August 13-19
is now reported as 2600, including 150 from Japan,
99 West Germany, 77 Great Britain, 72 Argentina, and
61 France.
(4) The Sixteenth Midwest Conference on Asian
Affairs was held at the University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas, 10-11 November.
B. Forthcoming
(1) International Conference on Asian History,
University of Malaya, Aug 5-10, 1968. Particulars
available from Hon. Secretary, Organization Committee
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of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Some information may be available
from Professor Allan Cole, Fletcher School oil-Law and Diplomacy
and Robert Van Niel, University of Hawaii, who are American
representatives of the conference's organization committee.
(2) Southeast Regional Conference of Associa-
tion of Asian Studies Durham, 26-27 January 1967.
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Attachment A
CTF Newsletter #6
Tung-hsi Wen-hua (Eastern and Western'CU'lt'ure)
A new monthly periodical, Tung-hsi Wen-hua (Eastern and
Western Culture), began publication in July 1967 by the
China Academy, Taiwan. The periodical is in Chinese but,
the first issue at least, carries an English table of con-
tents, which possibly reflects the tenor of
appears below.
Contents
the journal. It
Foreward
Articles
Chang Chi-yun
The Characteristics of the Chinese People
Chang Chi-yun
1
New Spirit
Wang Yun-wu
12
A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western
Cultures
John C. H. Wu
18
Chinese Literature
F. T. Cheng
24
Shen Kua, the Statesmanand Scientist of
North Sung Dynasty
Y. C. Koo
25
Early Chinese and Ryukyu Cultural Relation-
ship and Its Influence on Japan
Yang Chung-kuei
35
A New Approach to the Pacific
W. G. Goddard
41
Chinese Study in Japan
Hyo Kinoshita
44
Symposium on Chinese Law, A Report
Pan Wei-ho
48
Book Reviews
Life of Lin Tse-hsu (1785-1850)
Orient Lee
17
A New Edition of the History of the Yuan
Dynasty
Chang Hsing-tang
55
An Outline History of Chinese Dress
Pao Tsun-pang
57
Appendix
Some Regulations and Rules of the China Academy
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Attachment B
CTF Newsletter #6
1967 CHICOM SERIALS RECEIPTS
Novem er
(1 September-7'
apers No. of 'I'ssues 'Received
News
p
1.
CHIN-JIH HSIN-WEN
9
(July)
(Peiping)
27
(August)
20
(September)
2.
CHUNG-KUO HSIN-WEN
(Canton)
76
(1 Aug-15 Oct)
3.
HSIN-CHIANG JIH-PAO
(Uri mchi )
1
(9 July)
4.
JEN-MIN JIH-PAO
(Peiping)
74
(19 Aug-31 Oct)
5.
KUANG-MING JIH-PAO
(Peiping)
74
(19 Aug-31 Oct)
6.
NAN-FANG JIH-PAO
(Canton)
2
(22, 25 Apr)
7.
PEI-CHING JIH-PAO
(Peiping)
41
(20 Jun-14 Aug)
8.
WEN-HUI-PAO
(Shanghai)
36
(8 Jul-13 Aug)
Journals
1.
CHIEH-'FANG-CHUN HUA-PAO
(Peiping) S/Monthly
1 (No. 15)
2.
CHIEH-FANG-CHUN WEN-I
(Peiping) S/Monthly
4 (No. 7-11)
3.
CHINA PICTORIAL
(Peiping) Monthly
3 (No. 8-10)
4.
CHINA RECONSTRUCTS
2 (No. 7-8)
(Peiping) Monthly
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CHINESE LITERATURE
(Peiping) Monthly
1. (NN,o. 8)
6.
CHINA'S MEDICINE
(Peiping) Monthly
2 (No. 5-6)
7.
HUNG-CH' I
(Peiping) Irregular
3 (No. 12-14)
8.
JEN-MIN HUA-PAO
(Peiping) Monthly
2 (No. 9-10)
9.
JIN-MIN CHUGOKU (Japanese)
(Peiping) Monthly
1 (No. 9)
10.
NUNG-TS'UN CH'ING-NIEN
(Peiping) Monthly
4 (No. 11-14)
11.
NUNG-YEH CHI-HSIEH CHI-SHU
(Peiping)
1 (No. 4)
12.
NUNG-YEH CHI-SHU
(Peiping) Monthly
3 (No. 5-7)
13.
PEKING INFORMA (Spanish)
(Peiping) Weekly
10 (No. 34-40,
42-44)
14.
PEKING INFORMATION (French)
(Peiping) Weekly
10 (No. 33-40,
42-43)
15.
PEKING REVIEW
(Peiping) Weekly'
11 (No. 35-45)
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Attachment C
CTF Newsletter #6
NDEA Language and Area Centers
The National Defense Education Act (NDEA) of 1958 provided for
federal assistance, through the Office of Education of the Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare, to academic language and area cen-
ters. The aim was to encourage colleges and universities to introduce
instruction in hitherto neglected and uncommonly taught languages
deemed to be of critical importance to the US.
Under terms of the act, the federal government would provide up
to 50% of the cost of establishing and operating approved area centers
during a seven-year period 1958-1965. The program was subsequently
extended through June 196.8. By the end of the 1967-1968 school year,
a total of over $25 million in federal aid will have been granted to
106 NDEA centers established at 63 colleges and universities.
The language and area centers concentrate on the non-Western parts
of the world. The curriculum of a center is not limited to language
instruction; each center seeks to offer a cohesive area program, com-
bining several pertinent academic disciplines, with attention focused
on a single world region.
Chinese language and area instruction is offered at at least 26
of the NDEA centers, listed below:
Center Year of First Total Assistance
University of Arizona
r eder_al Aid Through June 168
Tucson, Arizona 85721 1960 $ 260,136
Prof. Earl H. Pritchard
Director, Language and Area
Center in Oriental Studies
Brown University 1965
Providence, Rhode Island 02912 71,000
Prof. Jerome B. Grieder
Acting Director, East Asia
Language and Area Center
University of Chicago 1959
Chicago, Illinois 60637 299,092
Prof. Edwin McClellan
Director, Far Eastern
Language and Area Center
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado 80304 7967 21,395
Prof. Donald S. Willis
Director, Language and Area
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Columbia University 1960 573,122
New York, N.Y. 10027
Prof. Wm. Theodore de Bary
Director; East Asian
Language and Area Center
Cornell University 1960 327,416
Ithaca, New York 14850
Prof. Knight Biggerstaff
Acting Director, East Asian
Language and Area Center
Dartmouth College 1965 88,000
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
Profs. Ernest Young & Jonathan Mirsky
Co-Directors, Language and Area
Center for East Asia
Earlham College 1965 87,256
Richmond, Indiana 47375
Prof. Jackson H. Bailey
Director, Language and Area
Center for East Asia
Harvard University 1959 714,021
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Prof. Donald H. Shively
Director, Language and Area
Center for East Asian Studies
University of Hawaii 1960 441,357
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Prof. Charles B. Neff
Director, Asian Studies
Language and Area Center
University of Illinois 1965 89,000
Urbana, Illinois 61803
Prof. Solomon B. Levine
Director, Asian Studies
Language and Area Center
University of Iowa 1960 183,654
Iowa City, Iowa 52240
Prof. Y. P. Mei
Director, Center for Far
Eastern Studies
University of Kansas 1959 267,671
Lawrence, Kansas 66045
Prof. Thomas R. Smith
Director, Language and Area
Center for East Asian Studies
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Manhattanville College of 1965
the Sacred Heart
Purchase, New York 10577
Mother Adele M. Fiske
Director, Language and Area
Center for East Asia
50,566
University of Michigan 1960 290,833
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
Prof. Charles O. Hucker
Director, Far Eastern
Language and Area Center
Oakland University 1965 70,479
Rochester, Michigan 48063
Prof. Clyde B. Sargent
Director, Language and Area
Center for East Asia
Oberlin College
Oberlin, Ohio 44074
Prof. Paul B. Arnold
Director, East Asian
Language and Area Center
77,065
University of Pittsburgh 1960 248,309
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
Prof. Yi-t'ung Wang
Director, East Asian Language
and Area Center
Princeton University 1965 122,917
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Prof. Frederick W. Mote
Director, Language and Area
Center for East Asia
University of Rochester 1967 23,692
Rochester, New York 14627
Prof. Robert B. Hall
Director, Language and Area
Center for East Asia
University of Southern California 1960 287,410
Los Angeles, California 90007
Prof. Theodore H. E. Chen
Director, East Asian
Studies Center
Stanford University 1959 527,090
Stanford, California 94305
Prof. Patrick D. Hanan
Director, Chinese-Japanese
Language and Area Center
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University of Texas 1960 182,388
Austin, Texas 78712
Prof. Edgar C. Polome
Director, Language and Area
Center for Asian Studies
University of Washington 1959 719,537
Seattle, Washington 98105
Prof. Lyman H. Legters
Director, Far Eastern and
Russian Language and Area Center.
Washington University 1965 98,935
St. Louis, Missouri 63130
Prof. Henry Fenn
Acting Director, Language and Area
Center for Chinese and Japanese
Yale University 1965 136,851
New Haven, Connecticut 06520
Prof. Hugh T. Patrick
Director, Language and Area
Center for East Asian Studies.
Total federal. funds -- $6,259,192
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