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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This essay offers a series of personal reflections about a number of factors that affect the field of contemporary China studies in the United States from the 1950s through the early 21st century.1 Two caveats are in order, however. First, perhaps because the author is a political scientist, the summary will be slightly skewed in favor of this discipline rather than economics, sociology, or the humanities - nonetheless I hope to capture the broad trends in the scholarly study of contemporary China since the People's Republic of China was established in 1949. Second, the field of China-watching in the United States today extends far beyond the academic scholarly community; it involves the U.S. Government, banks and corporations, law firms, and a wide range of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Thus, the following summary only pertains to principal trends evident in one sector - the scholarly sector - of a much larger Sinological community today.
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