WE AMERICANS always seem to be busy clearing up misconceptions about China. In our
attempt to get beyond one set of misunderstandings, however, we often create new ones to …

China: A Country Study supersedes the 1972 Area Handbook for the People's Republic of
China. Because of the sweeping changes in the form and substance of many economic …

For those who study China, 1989 was a year rich in anniversaries. In September of that year,
three major American universities (Harvard, California at Berkeley, and Michigan) jointly …

China is on the rise in the globalized world. The relationship between China and the United
States has become the most important global issue in the twenty-first century. It is urgent to …

The dramatic increase in China's economic and hence political power and influence is a
common story around the world. Just how clearly and well does this story get across to …

This book was written to help general readers and policy makers, as well as students and
scholars, understand how ordinary Americans—the “American public” as a whole—think …

If we are unclear today about our feelings for China, we should not worry over much.
Westerners have been unclear about China since they first began to live there in any …

The reemergence of China as a political force has triggered sharp reassessments of its
future role in the Asia-Pacific region. There has been much hyperbole about China's …

This paper is aimed at providing a Chinese perspective on China's role in Asia and strategy
toward its Asian neighbors. 1 It attempts to answer three conceptual questions:(1) What is …

These romanticized or racist views of China from some of the best minds in Enlightenment
Europe cannot be attributed solely to the lack of information about China at the time because …