American Studies of Contemporary China

Part I The Evolution of Contemporary China Studies in the United States; Chapter 1 Introduction, David Shambaugh; Chapter 2 The Evolution of American Scholarship on Contemporary China, Harry Harding; Part II Disciplinary Surveys; Chapter 3 The Study of Chinese Society, Thomas B. Gold; Chapter 4 The Humanities in Contemporary China Studies: An Uncomfortable Tradition, Anthony J. Kane; Chapter 5 The Study of the Chinese Economy, Penelope B. Prime; Chapter 6 Studies of Chinese Politics, Nina P. Halpern; Chapter 7 New Directions in Chinese Security Studies, Robert S. Ross, Paul H.B. Godwin; Part III The American China Studies Community; Chapter 8 The Academic China Specialists, Richard Madsen; Chapter 9 Government China Specialists: Scholar Officials and Official Scholars, ThomasFingar; Chapter 10 The Private Sector China Specialists, Thomas W. Robinson; Chapter 11 The Journalist China Specialists, Jay Mathews, Linda Mathews; Part IV Infrastructure; Chapter 12 Chinese Language Training for New Sinologists, Timothy Light; Chapter 13 Library Resources for Contemporary China Studies, Eugene W.Wu; Chapter 14 Scholarly Exchange and American China Studies, Mary Brown Bullock; Chapter 15 Financing Contemporary China Studies, Terrill E. Lautz; Part V Epilogue; Chapter 16 The American Study of Modern China: Toward the Twenty-first Century, Michel C. Oksenberg;

David Shambaugh, Mary Brown Bullock, Thomas Fingar, Paul H.B. Godwin, Thomas B. Gold, Nina P. Halpern, Harry Harding

Examines the historical evolution of contemporary China studies in the United States, reflecting the growth and maturation of the field since the Communist Party seized power in 1949.