K. C. Wu v. National Endowment for Humanities and Wallace B. Edgerton, as Acting Chairman for the National Endowment for the Humanities

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

Appellant was born in 1903 in China, where he received a “classical” Chinese education. He has lived in the United States for a number of years and is presently a college professor in Georgia. About 1966 appellant became convinced that most Chinese histories available in the United States were replete with factual errors. He attributes this deficiency to the inadequate training of Western sinologues, few, if any, of whom have had the benefit of a “classical” education.

In hope of correcting the errors he perceived, appellant wrote an article, “Local Government in…