Abstract:

The establishment of republicanism aroused huge imagination space among intellectuals. With the idea of academic independence from politics, they asked the government to set up Hanxia Academy following the system of advanced Western countries to conduct academic awards and research. Strangely, the government established the Central Society for academic groups to meet the request of electing senators. Later, scholarship funds, the academic evaluation committee and the academic assessment committee were also set up to conduct academic evaluation. In the situation with no academic foundation at that time, the scholars’ wish of using the power of the government to achieve their academic evaluation goals, the government’s wish of using academic power to complete its political goals, and the government’s wish of starting academic evaluation through institutional design were all part of a premature system design. The fate of failure had been determined from the very beginning.

Key words: early years of the ROC, academic evaluation, academic independence, premature system design