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Bridging the Sino-American Divide

American Studies with Chinese Characteristics

Edited By: Mei Renyi

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In this volume, nearly forty scholars based in China reflect on American Studies. Major themes include globalization, the transmission of ideas across cultural boundaries, and the state of Sino-American relations, offering a sample of the field in China today.

Within China, the discipline of American Studies spans a wide variety of concerns and preoccupations, reflecting its practical diversity in a transnational setting. Essays in…

Within China, the discipline of American Studies spans a wide variety of concerns and preoccupations, reflecting its practical diversity in a transnational setting. Essays in this volume by close to forty scholars, the majority most of them based in mainland China, reflect on the past history and current teaching of American Studies within China, placing these in comparative perspectives. The nature of globalization, the transmission of ideas and practices across cultural boundaries, the formulation and meaning of identity in cross-national communications, constitute major themes in contemporary American Studies in China. For officials and commentators alike, the past, present, and future state of Sino-American relations are also an overriding preoccupation of China’s America-watchers. Overall, this collection allows the reader to sample and appreciate the state of the field of American Studies in today’s China.

Priscilla Roberts is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hong Kong, where she has taught since 1984. She is also Honorary Director of the university’s Centre of American Studies, in which capacity she is involved in numerous efforts to encourage exchanges among Americanists in China, Hong Kong, the United States, and Europe. She has published extensively on twentieth-century diplomatic and international history.

Susan Armitage, Zhao Baomin, Julia Chang Bloch, Zhang Chong, Staci Ford, Zheng Hua, Li Huajun, Lynn T. III, Liu Jianfeng, Ye Jiang, Wang Jianping, Zhuang Jianzhong, Chen Juebin, James A. Kelly, Karsten krueger, Paul Levine, Zhang Liping, Gina Marchetti, Qiu Meirong, Jiang Ningkang, Nicholas Platt, Wang Qingjiang, Mei Renyi, Wang Shijing, He Sibing, Gordon E. Slethaug, Qin Sujue, Zhang Tao, Yu Tingming, Qiu Wangsheng, Pan Weijuan, Cheng Xilin, Zhang Xin, Meng Yaru, Feng Yi, Zhang Yijun, Kenneth Kai-Chung Yung, Sun Zhe, Zi Zhongyun