RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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use of foreign sinologues as well as for scholars
having more general interests.
The other aspect of the problem is to make the
English section of the bibliography adequate for
the needs of librarians as well as of foreign
scholars, and for this service the support from
Chinese sources is not now adequate. The Foundation
therefore appropriated 35,000 toward
'that purpose, to be used during the period October
1, 1935, to December 31, 1938. International
distribution of the bulletin is assured
through the Chinese National Committee on
Intellectual Cooperation and the National Library
in Peiping.
Institute of Pacific Relations. American Council
Chinese Language Study
To the American Council of the Institute of
Pacific Relations there has been appropriated
the sum of 317,500 for work during a three-year
period on methods of teaching the Chinese language
to English-speaking students. A review of
all existing manuals will be undertaken as a
preliminary to the production of others devised
to aid in the rapid learning of Chinese for a wide
variety of uses. The need for such material has
been demonstrated in the summer seminars of
the institute and of the American Council of
Learned Societies, conducted for the benefit of
American students of Far Eastern subjects, and
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