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In 1942, the Department of State initiated a program of cultural exchanges with China that lasted until the coming of Mao in 1949. The program offered assistance to the Chinese people in such areas as education, public health, agriculture, and engineering. This book reveals how the program was organized and implemented, and explains why it was a pioneer effort in American foreign policy.

Wilma Fairbank documents, from both a historical and a uniquely personal perspective, the professional and personal achievements of Lin Whei-yin and Liang Sicheng. Liang and Lin were born in early twentieth-century China, a time when the influences of modernism were slowly bearing down on the traditional culture. In the 1920s, they traveled together to the Beaux Arts universe of Philadelphia, where they both graduated with honors from the architecture department of the University of Pennsylvania. Married in 1928, they returned to their native land and became the first two professors at the...