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...marshal aircraft carriers, a fleet of jets and half a million men for the war in Viet Nam, but when it comes to scholarship in Vietnamese language and culture, the nation is woefully unprepared. As Harvard Sinologist John K. Fairbank put it at a conference of Orientalists...
William Randolph Who? If the preface to this treatise on "dietetical materialism" is to be believed, its translator is an eminent Sinologist born in Canton province, where his parents
Capitalists in Communist China? In deed yes, says Barry M. Richman, a professor at U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Business Administration and a vet eran Sinologist. Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Richman describes Mao's country as "a land where some 300,000 capitalists still receive interest on their investments, and where many of them are still serving as managers of their nationalized enterprises." Striking a Bargain. Richman, a Ca nadian citizen, toured China for two months last spring, found that many businessmen had not only survived but thrived on Red soil. Though small-stuff storekeepers...
...overtake Russia in the years after Stalin. Mao does not want to go the way of Stalin in history after his death, nor does he want China to go the way of "bourgeois, revisionist" Russia. "He seeks nothing less than the rejuvenation of a great revolution," says Hong Kong Sinologist Mark Gayn, "the rebirth in middle age of the drive, the passion, the selflessness and the discipline it had in its youth a third of a century...
...this has done no good so far, most Sinologists feel strongly that it is well worth the effort. Columbia's Barnett describes it as a process of "slowly involving Communist China in more patterns of international intercourse." Says Harvard's John Lindbeck: "One of our obligations as world citizens is to help the Chinese to become more sophisticated." Another Sinologist in his own right, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, speaks eloquently of a latent force that may be at work deep in the body of China as a modifying influence-"the pragmatic genius of the Chinese people." These...