colleges for verification, and a formal joint card catalog established and stored in the Center for American Studies Library for those interested in re s ea rching Ame r i can i s sue s and wanting to discover where the materials were located. On March 12, 1972, with Dr. Wang as the chairperson, the first meeting of the “Review Committee of the Center for American Studies” c o n v e n e d . Co n s e q u e n t l y, t h e Center for American Studies was formally established, and Chen Chilu, Professor of Anthropology at National Taiwan University, was appointed a full-time research fellow and director of the Center. One of Dr. Chen’s objectives was to actively collaborate on projects undertaken at other academic institutions, such a s the “Bi b l i ogr aphi c Re s ea rch Project of American History” with the Department of History at the Nat ional Taiwan Univers i ty, the “Research on Amer ican Li terary Terminology” with the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the National Taiwan University, and the compilation of the “Dictionary of the Library” with the National Central Library. Chang Chung-tung (first from the left) and Wang Chi-wu (second from the left) participated in the preparatory task force for the Center for American Studies (third from the left to right: Cha Liang-chao, Chu Yen, and Chao Pao-hsuan) Manuscript of "Sino-American Cooperation Committee on Humanities and Social Sciences of Academia Sinica's overview of the Center for American Studies", co-authored by Chen Chi-lu and Chu Yen In the Beginning: The Origin and Evolution of the Institute of European and American Studies 4
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