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Image 1: This is a 2011 picture of a 5th grader at a rural elementary school in Gansu Province. She is eating an egg provided by the school as a part of the Egg-a-Day Program starting in Gansu. The program is based off of the neighboring Shaanxi…

An associate professor in the department of political science at the University of Kansas. His research focuses on rural social and political development including village elections, tax reform and rural education. He frequently returns to China to…

This 1944 document is the introductory page of a memorandum sent by Academia Sinica's governing council to China's Ministry of Education regarding a set of initiatives proposed by Academia Sinica to help foster scientific research in China. Academia…

Electro-plating with a hand generator, owing to absence of mains current, at the Scientific Apparatus Supply Service factory

Megan Greene is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas. A historian of Republican China, her publications include, The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan: Science Policy…

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Sherry Fowler received her Ph.D. in Japanese Art History from UCLA. Among her publications are Muroji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple (University of Hawai’i Press, 2005); “Locating Tomyoji and Its…

John Dardess, Professor Emeritus of History, retired in 2002 after thirty-five years of teaching East Asian, Chinese, and Inner Asian history to students at KU. He is the author of six books and many articles on Yuan and Ming history. His latest is…