Social engineering and the social sciences in China, 1919-1949/
Yung-chen Chiang
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- 299p. ill. 23 cm
1. Introduction; 2. The Yanjing sociology department: the social service phase, 1919-25; 3. The Yanjing Sociology Department: from social service to social engineering, 1925-45; 4. The Nankai Institute of Economics: the germinating stage, 1927-31; 5. The Nankai Institute of Economics: academic entrepreneurship and social engineering, 1931-47; 6. Marxism, revolution and the study of Chinese society; 7. Genesis of a Marxist social science enterprise in the early 1930s; 8. The social sciences, agrarian China and the advocacy of revolution; 9. The Rockefeller foundation and Chinese academic enterprise; 10. Conclusion: the legacy; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.