WU v. NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR HUMANITIES

No. 71-2852.

460 F.2d 1030 (1972)

K.C. WU, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR HUMANITIES and Wallace B. Edgerton, as Acting Chairman For the National Endowment For the Humanities, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 2, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anton F. Solms, Jr., Savannah, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

R. Jackson B. Smith, Jr., U.S. Atty., Augusta, Ga., David D. Rawlins, Asst. U.S. Atty., Savannah, Ga., Walter H. Fleischer, Raymond D. Battocchi, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., L. Patrick Gray, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before TUTTLE, GEWIN and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges.


THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

Appellant was born in 1903 in China, where he received a "classical" Chinese education. He has lived in the United States for a number of years and is presently a college professor in Georgia. About 1966 appellant became convinced that most Chinese histories available in the United States were replete with factual errors. He attributes this deficiency to the inadequate training of Western sinologues, few, if any, of whom have had the benefit...

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