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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
I visited China for 46 days in the months of July and August 1974, almost exactly two years after my first visit in 1972. The interval between my two visits coincided very closely with the growth of the campaign to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius, which reached an intense level at the time of my most recent visit. In my own view, the campaign was the second wave of the Cultural Revolution in succession to the first wave formed by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. In both, the educational movement or revolution has played and is playing a very prominent role and has in turn produced very visible effects on China's science and technology.
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3. I learned of this expression and its meaning at group conferences with the following host universities during my 1974 trip: Chunshan (12 July), Futan (16 July), Nanking (24 July), Peking (26 July), Nankai (28 July), Tsinghua (1 August), Chiaotung (10 August) and Yunnan (16 August). The most accessible reference in the available literature is “Open-door schooling,” China Reconstructs, Vol. XXIII, No. 11 (11 1974), p. 2.Google Scholar
4. The substance of this section was derived from the discussions with the principals of Peking University on 26 July 1974, and with those of Tsinghua University on 1 August 1974.
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8. Co-operative project between the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, the Institute of Biophysics in Peking and Peking University.
9. At the Institute of Chemistry in Peking.
10. At the Institute of Biophysics in Peking.
11. Also at the Institute of Biophysics in Peking.
12. At the Institute of Physics in Peking and the Department of Physics at Chunshan University.
13. At the Institute of High Energy Physics in Peking and the Department of Physics at Peking University.
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