Dr. Chi Wang (born 1932) is a professor of U.S.-China relations and modern China at Georgetown University, where he contributed to the establishment of Georgetown's PhD program in Asian History and is co-chair of the U.S.-China Policy Foundation. Established in 1995, the foundation supports various activities through its Committee for U.S. Libraries and Museum Exchange. At Georgetown, Dr. Wang also contributed to the establishment of Georgetown's PhD program in Asian History Prior to his current positions, Dr. Wang was the head of the Chinese Section at Library of Congress and had worked in the field of librarianship for forty-eight years before retiring from LC in October 2004. Early life and education Wang was born in 1932. His father, was a general of the Northeastern Army. As a child, Wang lived in Peking. Following the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War, he moved with his family across Henan, Hebei, Hong Kong and Shanghai. He returned to Peking after the outbreak of the Attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1949, he left China to study in the United States. Wang received high school, college, and graduate in the United States. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in agriculture from the University of Maryland, and his PhD at Georgetown University in 1969. Career Wang began his career at the Library of Congress in 1956 to work on a microfilm project. In 1958, he became a cataloguer in the newly established Far Eastern Languages Section where he was asked to head up an innovative project to use a photocomposing machine that the Library just purchased from Japan to produce catalog cards with CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) scripts, which put the practice of hand-copying CJK characters to cards to an end: quite a technological breakthrough at the time. Shortly after his appointment in the Far Eastern Languages Section, the LC received funding from the National Science Foundation to strengthen its Asian collections in science and technology. Wang, who had a college degree in agriculture from the University of Maryland, was recruited by the Science and Technology Division to supervise its Asian Science Unit. In that position, he helped the Library to develop a core collection of science and technology in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. Wang's collection has since become one of the most comprehensive collections of such material outside of Asia, consisting of over one million volumes. Wang also compiled three bibliographies in the 1960s: