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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300011-9 Chronology (Parapsychology in China) | 405 1982 (May 13) Both sides of the debate appealed to the Party. The decision was announced by Hu Yaobang, the Party’s Gereral Secretary. Exceptional functions of the human body was rejected as an approved subject of scientific research, but a minority group of scientists was to be allowed to continue their research and report it in an internally circu— lated publication for the consideration of interested scien— tists. The media were requested not to publish on the topic. Formal university research and government funding was halted. 1982 (August) An invited speech was given by two Chinese scientists, Chen Hsin and Mei Lei, at the joint convention of the Parapsychological Association and the Society for Psychical Research held at Cambridge University. 1983 A series of PK experiments with the subject Zhang Baosheng (Z) were conducted by 19 researchers led by Prof. Lin Shuhuang of the physics department of Beijing Teacher’s College. The results were reported in EFHB - Research. 1984 Zhang Baosheng became a full—time subject of the military—run psi research team at what was called the 507 Institute, or the Institute of Space Medico—Engineering (ISME) in Beijing. Thus, psi research at ISME was official and funded. 1985 In an interview with Paul Dong in the March, 1985 issue of Pst Research, Larissa Vilenskaya asked if Chinese psi research was continuing. He replied that the government ordered the scientists not to refer publicly to their work. The research continues but is published only in special journals for internal use only. 1985 (August) At the 1985 convention of the Parapsychological Association, H.E. Puthoff of SRI International reported an attempt to repeat some experiments reported by researchers from the People’s Republic of China at the 1982 convention of the Parapsychological Association. The repetition was partially successful, although smaller in magnitude than the Chinese results. 1985 (August) A PRC—made film on qigong was presented ; during a workshop on the "Status of Psi Research in the People’s Republic of China" at the 28th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association in Medford, MA, Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300011-9