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The following interview took place in Canton on 13 May 1974, where my wife and I met five leading members of the Kwangtung Institute of Law and Political Science – Mr Kao Kun-feng, chairman, Mr Chiang Chun-chin, Mr Koo Yue-hua, Mr Wang Tieh-hsing and Mr Hsin Ban-chi. Most of the information was supplied by Mr Kao Kun-feng, whom some embassy experts in Peking believe to be – or to have been – the president of the intermediate court in Canton. The Institute of Law and Political Science of Kwangtung Province was described as a mass organization for research into law and for facilitating meetings with foreigners. It was compared to the law department of the Academy of Sciences in Peking which, however, was said to have more specialized sections than this provincial institute.
The economic decentralization measures introduced in the late 1950s have long been viewed as a watershed in the economic and political evolution of post-1949 China. The most widely accepted interpretation is that these edicts transferred broad economic powers from the Centre to the provincial governments and that, as a result, the ability of the central government to control the allocation of the nation's economic resources was substantially impaired. This fundamental realignment in the internal balance of economic power is, in turn, viewed as having far-reaching implications for China's capacity for national economic planning and for a broad range of other important issues related to our understanding of China's developmental experience.
During March and April 1972 members of the Second Friendship Delegation of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars visited the People's Republic of China and met Fei Hsiao-t'ung, Wu Wen-tsao and Lin Yüeh-hwa, scholars well known in western sociological and anthropological circles, and who are at present affiliated to the Central National Minorities Institute, Peking. In October 1973 an article by Gene Cooper appeared in Current Anthropology, consisting of a transcript of Fei's remarks to the delegation, a summary of the ensuing discussion, and a translation of the reply written by Fei, Wu and Lin on 11 October 1972 in response to Cooper's sending them a draft copy of the interview report.