Under the leadership of two Yale PhDs, Franklin Ho and H.D. Fong, the Nankai Institute of Economics developed in the 1930s into one of China's best teaching and research programs. Faculty were constantly recruited from the products of leading western graduate schools. Important financial support...

This paper analyzes the way in which Keynsian economic analysis were introduced into China. Many of the details of the paper were based on interviews with a number of senior Chinese economists: Chen Dai-sun, Wang Chuan-lun, Wu Pao-san, Chen Chenhan, Tsui Shu-hsiang, and Gao Hong- ye. These were...