Understanding Communist China
Communist China Studies in the United States and the Republic of China, 1949-1978
Published on 1. July 1986
Book
Paperback/Softback
172 pages
978-0-8179-8342-0 (ISBN)
Description
Kuo and Myers discuss the strengths and weaknesses of American and Chinese research and propose how the internationalization of research on communist countries like China could be greatly improved in the future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stanford
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
281 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8179-8342-0 (9780817983420)
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Tai-chun Kuo is a research fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Previously, she was a visiting lecturer at the Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University (2003) and an associate professor at the Graduate Institute of American Studies, Tamkang University (Taiwan, 1997-2000). She served as press secretary to the Republic of China (ROC) president (1990-95), deputy director-general of the First Bureau of the Presidential Office (1989-97), and director of the ROC Government Information Office in Boston (1987-88).
Ramon H. Myers is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.He received his PhD in economics from the University of Washington. After joining the Hoover Institution, Myers became a member of the US Wheat Studies Delegation to the People's Republic of China in May-June 1976; served as a consultant to the Food Agricultural Organization, Rome, Italy, from November 1979 to January 1980; and taught as a visiting professor of economics at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1990-91."