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Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (中美学术交流委员会 Zhōng-Měi Xuéshù Jiāoliú Wěiyuánhuì) is a private non-governmental organization founded in 1966 in order to support educational, scientific, and cultural exchange between the United States and China. In 1996, budget restrictions and a decline in private and federal support forced the closure of the Washington, DC office of the CSCPRC, now renamed the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China (CSCC).

Origins and development

In 1963, the Chinese detonation of an atomic bomb moved scientists of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) formed a committee to establish more effective communication with the People's Republic. But there was not movement until President Richard Nixon visited China in 1972 inspired the organization of some sixty-seven delegations, mainly in the fields of natural sciences. During the presidency of Jimmy Carter Frank Press

partnered with the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Representative publications of the Committee

Free online at Internet Archive

• "China Exchange Newsletter". Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China. 1973. JSTOR stable/1040802.
• Thurston, Anne F.; Reed, Linda A.; Turner-Gottschang, Karen (1994). China Bound: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC. Washington, D.C: National Academy Press. ISBN 0585001782. Rev. ed. First published 1981, rewritten 1987. https://archive.org/details/chinaboundguidet00turn
• Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (U.S.). 1992. Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China : A Report of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China Office of International Affairs National Research Council. Washington D.C: National Academy Press. # https://archive.org/details/grasslandsgrassl0000unse
• Wakeman Frederic E and U.S. Delegation of Ming and Qing Historians. 1980. Ming and Qing Historical Studies in the People's Republic of China. Berkeley Calif: Institute of East Asian Studies University of California Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies. http://books.google.com/books?id=iKDoAAAAIAAJ.

References

• Bullock, Mary Brown (2005), "Mission Accomplished: The Influence of the CSCCRP", in Li, Cheng (ed.), Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: US-China Educational Exchanges, 1978-2003, pp. 49–68

• Berkshire Editors (2009). "Committee on Scholarly Communication with China". Berkshire Encyclopedia of China. Berkshire Publishing Group. pp. 454–455.

• Gu, Ning (2006). "On the Cultural Legacy of the Cold War: Sino-Us Educational Exchange (1949–1990)". Frontiers of Education in China. 1 (4): 487–504. doi:10.1007/s11516-006-0025-0. S2CID 195308985.

• Lampton, David M.; Madancy, Joyce A.; Williams, Kristen M. (1986). A Relationship Restored: Trends in U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978-1984. Washington, D.C: National Academy Press. ISBN 030903678X.
• Madsen, Richard (1995). China and the American Dream: A Moral Inquiry. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520086139.
• Murray, Douglas P. (1976). "Exchanges with the People's Republic of China: Symbols and Substance". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 424: 29–42. doi:10.1177/000271627642400105. JSTOR 1040802. S2CID 145205402.

External links

• WorldCat
• "Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republic of China" New York Times Archive.