The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and China's Educational Policy

Donald Munro

Thursday, 01 Dec 1966 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union

Professor Donald J. Munro has been an assistant professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, since 1964. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1953, in the Department of Philosophy, and his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1964 in the Department of Chinese and Japanese. From 1960 through 1962, Professor Munro was a Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellow in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan, where he did research on classical Chinese philosophy. he spent the academic year 1965-1966 in Hong Kong on a Social Science research grant, studying Chinese Communist ideology and its application to Chinese educational policy.Part of the World Affairs Series: The Problem of China

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