Editor's Foreword

Abstract

John Israel, guest editor for this issue of Chinese Education, is well known for his extensive work on the youth movement in China in the 1930s and 1940s. For the past several years he has been researching and writing about the history of Southwest Associated University (Lianda), an institution established in Kunming, Yunnan, in 1938 by amalgamating three of China's major universities that had moved to the southwest in reaction to the Japanese invasion. One of those universities, Qinghua, is the subject of the following pages. Professor Israel selected the documents that we have translated for this issue of CED from a larger work, and he has written an introduction analyzing them and putting them in the context from which they came.