冷战时期卢斯基金会资助亚洲项目及其动因探析

An Analysis of the Henry Luce Foundation’s Funding of Asian Projects and its Motivation During the Cold War

卢斯基金会的亚洲项目主要是资助亚洲地区的宗教、高等教育、人文交流、法治建设和学术研究。其主要动因一是卢斯家族的基督教情结;二是推动亚洲的现代化;三是扩展美国了解亚洲的民间力量。此项目是冷战时期美国非政府组织介入国际关系的典型个案。

The Asian project of the Henry Luce Foundation is mainly to support religion,higher education,humanities exchanges,legal construction and academic research in Asia.The main reason for the Henry Luce Foundation’s funding of the Asian project is the Christian complex of the Luce family;the second reason lies in the promotion of Asian modernization;the third is the expansion of American understanding of the folk forces in Asia.The Asian project of the Henry Luce Foundation is a typical case of American non-governmental organization’s involvement in international relations during the Cold War.