Joint Chinese Academy of Social Sciences-American Academy Project
In 1984, as China was reviving its long-neglected education system, a small delegation from the American Academy visited the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to help develop programs that will allow Chinese scholars to learn about developments in Western social science and humanistic disciplines and allow U.S. scholars to learn about scholarly and societal developments in China.
In 1984, as China was reviving its long-neglected education system, a small delegation from the American Academy visited the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Since the 1950s, China had suffered great social and political turmoil, and the virtual destruction of its system of higher education. CASS turned to the Academy to help develop programs that would allow Chinese scholars to learn about developments in Western social science and humanistic disciplines and allow U.S. scholars to learn about scholarly and societal developments in China. In 1988, Academy members led a group of 10 U.S. scholars back to China to participate in a series of conferences dealing with the latest developments in the humanities and social science disciplines. The resulting volume focused on philosophy, history, literary theory, sociology and political science, and examined the universality or transferability of knowledge among cultures, as well as efforts to reintegrate highly specialized fields for application to social problems.
Resulting Publication
- Divided Knowledge: Across Disciplines, Across Cultures, eds. David Easton and Corinne S. Schelling. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1991. (out of print)
