中国科学社美国分社历史研究.pdf

38 3 223 Vol 38 No 3 (Serial No 223) 2016 5 Journal of Dialectics of Nature May 2016 2015 10 25 The American Branch of the Science Society of China: A Historical Study WANG Zuoyue CA91768 (Department of History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA 91768) 191419151918 1929 1931 Abstract: The Science Society of China was established by Chinese students studying in the US in 1914- 1915. After moving to China in 1918, its organization in the US was left in a limbo until the early 1930s when, at the request of the Board of Directors and its executive director Yang Xiaoshu, Mei Yiqi, who was in the US as the supervisor of students from Tsinghua University, successfully re-organized its American Branch by holding elections and annual conventions, therefore strengthening ties among Chinese students in the US and Sino- US connections in science, technology, and education. After Mei’s return for Tsinghua in late 1931 as its new president, Zhao Yuanren, Tang Peisong, Ren Zhigong, Qiu Kaiming and others kept the branch going. Based on archival materials on the branch for 1929-1936 at the Harvard Yenching Library, this paper concludes that 2015 10 27