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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).[1]

Origins and development

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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.[1] During the presidency of Jimmy Carter Frank Press

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

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Representative publications of the Committee

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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

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  • 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

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