The China Institute of America was founded in 1926 by John Dewey, Paul Monroe, Hu Shih, and Kuo Ping-Wen

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The China Institute of America (New York City), on whose board Pierre F. Goodrich later served from 1948 to 1965 (see claim-goodrich-china-institute-of-america-trustee-met-mei-at-wabash), was founded in 1926 by American educators John Dewey and Paul Monroe together with Chinese scholars Hu Shih (胡適) and Kuo Ping-Wen (郭秉文), per the institute's own account: "Founded in New York City in 1926 by American educators John Dewey, Paul Monroe, and Chinese scholars Hu Shih (胡適) and Kuo Ping-Wen (郭秉文)..."

Dewey (1859-1952) was the central figure of American pragmatism and had lived and lectured in China from 1919 to 1921; Hu Shih (1891-1962), one of his doctoral students at Columbia, became a leading reformist intellectual of the May Fourth movement and later served as the Republic of China's ambassador to the United States (1938-42). Both names were, before this capture, unknown to this vault despite their stature — a genuinely untouched thread in American pragmatism and May Fourth intellectual history that this note does not attempt to open beyond recording the founding fact itself.