Abstract: A shaped electroconductive aromatic imide polymer article comprising an aromatic imide polymer matrix and 10% to 40% by weight of short cut carbon fibers 1 to 30 .mu.m thick and 0.05 to 3.0 mm long dispersed in the matrix, is produced by admixing a slurry of the short cut carbon fibers having a limited moisture content of 1.0% or less in a polymerization medium, with a polymerization mixture containing an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid component and an aromatic diamine component, by subjecting the resultant admixture to a polymerization procedure to prepare a dope comprising a resultant polymerization product, the carbon fibers and the polymerization medium, and by subjecting the dope to shaped article-producing procedures in which the dope is shaped into a desired form and the shaped dope is solidified by removing the polymerization medium to provide a desired shaped article.