Social engineering and the social sciences in China, 1919-1949
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xiv, 299 pages : 23 cm
"In this book, Yung-chen Chiang tells the story of the origins, hopes and visions, and achievements of the social sciences movement in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Chiang focuses in particular on the efforts of social scientists at three institutions - Yanjing Sociology Department, Nankai Institute of Economics, and Chen Hansheng's Marxist agrarian research enterprise - to relate their disciplines to the needs of Chinese society. Because all three groups received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, their stories constitute a unique window onto Sino-American interactions, revealing how the social sciences became a lingua franca of the cultural frontier as patron and clients negotiated through the medium of social science agendas and methodologies." "Drawing on an impressive variety of archival materials used here for the first time, this study corrects and enriches current scholarship, offering simultaneously a more detailed and a panoramic view. Chiang does more than relate an extraordinary phase in the history of the social sciences in modern China; by focusing on the three most dynamic social science enterprises, he engages the complex issues of the transfer, indigenization, and international patronage of social science disciplines. Chiang's study of China's experience with Western social science, driven in large part by Sino-American intellectual and cultural exchanges, offers important lessons for contemporary social sciences development and education in China."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and index
The Yanjing sociology department: the social service phase, 1919-1925 -- The Yanjing sociology department: from social service to social engineering, 1925-1945 -- The Nankai Institute of Economics: the germinating stage, 1927-1931 -- The Nankai Institute of Economics: academic entrepreneurship and social engineering, 1931-1947 -- Marxism, revolution, and the study of Chinese society -- Genesis of a Marxist social science enterprise in the early 1930s -- The social sciences, agrarian China, and the advocacy of revolution -- The Rockefeller Foundation and Chinese academic enterprise
"In this book, Yung-chen Chiang tells the story of the origins, hopes and visions, and achievements of the social sciences movement in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Chiang focuses in particular on the efforts of social scientists at three institutions - Yanjing Sociology Department, Nankai Institute of Economics, and Chen Hansheng's Marxist agrarian research enterprise - to relate their disciplines to the needs of Chinese society. Because all three groups received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, their stories constitute a unique window onto Sino-American interactions, revealing how the social sciences became a lingua franca of the cultural frontier as patron and clients negotiated through the medium of social science agendas and methodologies." "Drawing on an impressive variety of archival materials used here for the first time, this study corrects and enriches current scholarship, offering simultaneously a more detailed and a panoramic view. Chiang does more than relate an extraordinary phase in the history of the social sciences in modern China; by focusing on the three most dynamic social science enterprises, he engages the complex issues of the transfer, indigenization, and international patronage of social science disciplines. Chiang's study of China's experience with Western social science, driven in large part by Sino-American intellectual and cultural exchanges, offers important lessons for contemporary social sciences development and education in China."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and index
The Yanjing sociology department: the social service phase, 1919-1925 -- The Yanjing sociology department: from social service to social engineering, 1925-1945 -- The Nankai Institute of Economics: the germinating stage, 1927-1931 -- The Nankai Institute of Economics: academic entrepreneurship and social engineering, 1931-1947 -- Marxism, revolution, and the study of Chinese society -- Genesis of a Marxist social science enterprise in the early 1930s -- The social sciences, agrarian China, and the advocacy of revolution -- The Rockefeller Foundation and Chinese academic enterprise
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