Roscoe Pound's move from China to India

"I am doing a paper now, for example, on Roscoe Pound's adventures in China. After 20 long, contentious years as dean, looking for a peaceful resting place, he went to China in the midst of its civil war to be an adviser on law reform and legal education to the Guomindang government. He spent three years crawling around prisons and visiting courts, writing a number of fascinating articles. So there is a good precedent on which we can build." -Prof. Bill Alford, Director of the East Asian Legal Studies Program.

Pound gave a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948 which were published as The Ideal Element in Law (1958).