POLITICAL INFORMATION: CHINESE ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH

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• Publication Date: April 27, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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The ncWW Chinese ': scctattor oi' Soc1al, and 'oa is Reaea.rrh
raj '' ), foi Uut3ri::ei> y ':o "provide b:tsi.c ::firterials for the rre-
C or' it'Auction 'v. chili' wnd vt2 :3 C1 '. f U::L :u i ix1 a r is i t> CJAMLL 1.{:.ti a oc ~:s W l'!
ecerr.;(n4c pro:-%3e= fac:`:x : Chia.4 t1xiar,4t, rrc,* na;.posed and sp4Dnaored More
U 'An two a ottk'hs ar;o (abou?L C;eoerm;aer 1947) in w r, ;tt ng ?roviiace by T. V
:,'7 (Sur Te, iv+en) -',i.t1-. 'thr, pe: ztnz:Lwt of CI;snerelisalto CE-LANG
:i->~.: r. It .,o,. a fbx i. y ootabL#sn :d o. 1 Ua eh l948The Aevxiatio '':e
real objective Is to :nerve as a new bridge be-.; erg Chiria and the Uni.{;sd
States y free of the s i,igmc attached to the pr33on{.; Chinese Governs ent
A.moraT- the fetuxiere of the Atasoc tion area eev'*.ral ea11-known former
critic Loam* a ntzerc .
idate: The ?o11o.aini; tpp rcid in th3 'rR. w ors Column" of the 2'4
February 948 isa w o, the i` ih rA'oY riti jl i _ihad by t.?tes 14f1 Lard Pub-
lishing Ccm tny, Shang mi :
"Art interestin ; move has b3en rr ie by eom^ of the gate liberals in
Peiping. Financed far ei.y by Ti. V, SOCkG, this ;scoop is planning the es-
tab:,.sh nenL of a social sclenoo re arch c :ntar in Peiping.. An active
orgf.n.t er is ci rid Ch eaj -chap, for mar Execu .i? Director of the National
Resources Cc r* iseion,, rho is connected with b th T, Y, and the Politics:.
Science Clique 4 CH a i N is trying to qav the cooperation of such libera' .a
as .'rofessor FF,I ! h o-tta of fitsi Iua University and HSIAC Chien of ?.z
Tan Univer3ity. . . "According to a UP di sew;.ah from Peiping, dated 2 H.trob
19143, the Association denied that. it rrac supp-)rtsd by T,, 'J, 30Ut1C and
denied thnt one of its airs v+lts the building ap of political careers for
it3 rncmbers.")
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lex of the irwu.nura1 speech by CH'I J China --chap /' t r > % Sec
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Today (1 March 1948) Marks the formal inaa,,;uration of the Chinese Assoc:va-
tica of Social and Lconaad.c iteeearch. I awn honored to be chosen to tpor zy
chaaiirman, and I shall r.,ake a short report preparatory to the fornmtion of
the Association.
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"The pr able s connected '. ,tb Chin ee politics, di.plomaay, LiocS.ety, and voonoay
ate t ery complicated, r Luse they ruin alms in a state of coni'waion, the
public is p=aled sad on'barrassed. Ever since Leaf ter, a group of friends,
representative of the fields of education, public opinion, industry and finance
has been asetinM poriod&cally to dlscuns these problems; last November 1947, we
all felt it necessary to establish an organir4tion for studying thm, and that
orgazii ation is todaya s Chinese Aasooiation of 3ooial and Econamdc Research,
ttit seem impractioel and out of place to tn3,k of Ereecsarch work, at C, tirw
when e'mryow finds it difficult even to scrape up enough to keep alive, and
those r'ho are skeptical about oocial orgaotzations are sure to voice their doutt 9.
They mipht accuse us of doing ocnething also under Lhe naue of research. under
present aircruwtances, .peptic .sue is natural in anyone, y research work that
departs fray r e a l i t y is Liable to be o u t of place and nroractical s. % & - t as r r
management not faced on research is like a blind r.~an ridir ; a blind harse. China
at present is far from being a modernized natAou, and warty of the basic problem.
of but1din a modern state are yet to bin thorn hly studied. t.ho can give definite
fi arcs on the Chiacse populatican, territory, mines and forests? .iho has accuratdy
reckoned the eat income of the Chinese public? These figures are the basic r, teas .c
fora real rooanssttuetion, and such research, though it tr31.1. be doe noose: or later,
ahot'lfl have been flosses to ago
":tie feel it our duty, t1wreforr, tc rather saw friood.j of mutual interest to here
those problem studied and find for our country a ray of light in the darlnosas, ft
via chould dozy firmly that we o.xc organizinn e. political body or utilizin our
grc:cp to take part in the political activities of the nation.. Any revolution hcne-
ficirta, to n nkin1 in like a ?loaer. It depends upcn a, fundamental theory Yhich to
liras the fat ierrs stem and leaves. Thu :7elfeare e:n oyed by the people 13. like the
fruit that is from the flow6r. , The peat failure cat' the Chineso revolution ties in
the rant that the fundamental theory iarazt deep and broad ecnnugh It is, ,berefore,
the Association', aim to establish 3 wt such a basic theory, and par York ,*.d.ll alt
gips rem?in at the stage of research. The aim of our research is to it:tprare the
gonerat c:elfarc of the whole populace, and the sethod we adopt. shall be, rn hope,
objective and caVletely open,,
t..te should like to find a no.. road.., ,a road which might have been laid by otters
in Chian We shall not turn array, even though the intornational situation be #i-
fier,. 'e 3ha-11 concentrate our wholes strength, and :?rs shall cooperate with out-
siders. We shall try to make a blueprint for the construetiert of a now China,
based xpon the reacuirenents of the whole popiil'ition. Henceforth, n zines, ore
of boos and research reports shall. be published by the Association. Those sha2J. to
the first rough drafts of that bbzcprint.s We hope '&.a public ;,-ill kindly ?ive us
assistance in such todious and difficult work,
" ho:.c are onl;f' a few thoughts for the occasion, Tice operational procedures and
our idans on the political, dip? tic, social and econcnic problem shan be
studied in detail in the Asocciatien members, general meeting. As soon as there
is any. result, it shall. be published. Instruction and criticism from any quarter
are si.;aceresrly w*1ccme."
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CIIANG Chih-jang
C.IiANG Chin-i
CIIAIif Ta-lu-Barg
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Professor of Pu Tan University
Advi.nistration section Chief of
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Manager of To ;hang
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Professor of Teirghua UniTersity
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Director of Social Science Institute
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