Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
The Department of Economics at Nanjing University (NanDa) was established over 60 years ago. In 1952, however, when China's universities and colleges were restructured along the Soviet pattern, the department was merged with Fudan University's Economics Department. The combined department was housed in Shanghai. In 1978, after some 26 years, a department was reinstated at NanDa, but none of the university's former faculty returned. At present NanDa has the only Economics Department in Jiangsu Province. Furthermore, there are no institutes of economics and finance in the province as there are in many other provinces and municipalities.
* I wish to express my appreciation to the members of the Department of Economics, Nanjing University, who consented to be interviewed for this article. They, of course, bear no responsibility for this article.