RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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center will gain positions in American colleges
and universities where they can apply their
knowledge of Chinese and Japanese in increasing
American understanding of Far Eastern cultures.
Other demands forqualified scholars come from
trade sources and from the government.
National Library of Peiping
Quarterly Bulletin of Chinese Bibliography
The lack of national and current special bibliographies
has made it extremely difficult for the
foreign scholar to find out what books and
articles are published in China. In the fall of
1931 the plan was conceived of issuing a small
bulletin of information in English, to be circulated
abroad as advertising material by the
Peiping Union Book Store under the title Book
News from China. The response was immediate
and general. At the end of 1933 it was felt that
there was an urgent demand for a more complete
bibliographical bulletin in English. The Chinese
National Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
in Shanghai then agreed to furnish the funds for
printing the Quarterly Bulletin oj'Chinese Bibliography,
to be edited under the auspices of the
National Library of Peiping. The first number of
this publication was issued in April 1934. The desire
of the editors of the bulletin is to furnish a
current bibliography, suitably annotated, for the
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