Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
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.