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Keeping Pace with a Changing China: The China Quarterly at 35

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

David Shambaugh
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1995 is the 35th year of publication of The China Quarterly. London has been the home of the journal throughout its existence and, as the world's leading scholarly journal on modern China, The China Quarterly has long been a distinguishing feature of British sinology. Since its inception The China Quarterly has been recognized world-wide as the journal of record on 20th-century Chinese affairs, publishing timely, reflective, informed and new research on a wide range of subjects. The journal's Quarterly Chronicle and Documentation (so ably compiled by Robert F. Ash since 1982) is a venerable history of all but the first decade of the People's Republic. The extensive list of books received and books reviewed (195 in 1994) are also histories of the China field in themselves.

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China, China Studies and The China Quarterly: A Symposium of Editorial Reflections on the Occasion of the 35th Anniversary of The China Quarterly
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The China Quarterly , Volume 143 , September 1995 , pp. 669 - 676
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1995

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References

1 See David, Shambaugh (ed.), American Studies of Contemporary China (Armonk, NY and Washington, D.C.: M. E. Sharpe and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1993).Google Scholar

2 For many years The China Quarterly monopolized the field. Articles on China always appeared in Problems of Communism, Studies in Comparative Communism and a handful of disciplinary journals, but the CQ was the only journal solely devoted to China. Those days are long gone - and much for the better. The field of modern Chinese studies has been enlivened by the appearance of The China Journal (formerly The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, under the editorship of Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan in Canberra); Issues & Studies (now edited by Shaw Yu-ming in Taipei); Modem China (edited by Philip C. Huang in Los Angeles);Late Imperial China (edited by James Lee in Los Angeles and published in Baltimore); Republican China (under the editorship of Steven Averill and published in Jamaica, New York); China Report (edited by Manoranjam Mohanty in Delhi); China Information (edited by Woei Lien Chong in Leiden); The Journal of Contemporary China (edited by Zhao Suisheng and published in Princeton); China Law Reporter (edited by James Feinerman and published by the American Bar Association); Modern Chinese Literature (edited by Howard Goldblatt and published in Boulder, Colorado); T'oung Pao: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Chinese Studies (edited by Wilt L. Idema and Pierre-Etienne Will and published in Leiden); The China Business Review (edited by Pamela Baldinger and published in Washington, D.C.); China Economic Review (edited by Bruce Reynolds); and numerous non-English journals published around the world.

3 I agree with many of the observations offered by Jonathan Unger, former editor of The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs. See his “Recent trends in modern China studies in the English-language world,” in Asian Research Trends, No. 4 (1944), pp. 179–186.

4 See chs. 1–7 and 16 in Shambaugh, American Studies of Contemporary China.

5 This may have had as much to do with the translation into English of Habermas’ book in the same year.

6 See, for example, Marks, Robert, “The state of the China field: or, the China field and the state,” Moderm China (October 1985), pp. 461–509Google Scholar; Oksenberg, Michel, “Can scholarship flourish when intertwined with politics?” ACLS Newsletter (Winter-Spring 1986), pp. 48–59Google Scholar; Harding, Harry, “From China, with disdain: new trends in the study of China,” Asian Survey (October 1982), pp. 934–958Google Scholar; Kuo, Ta-Chun and Myers, Ramon H., Understanding Communist China (Palo Alto: Hoover Institution Press, 1986).Google Scholar

7 See Moody, Peter, “Trends in the study of Chinese political culture,” The China Quarterly, No. 139 (September 1994), pp. 731–740.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

8 See Avery Goldstein, “Trends in the study of political elites and institutions in the PRC,” ibid. pp. 714–730.

9 Elizabeth J. Perry, “Trends in the study of Chinese politics: state-society relations,” ibid. pp. 704–713.

10 Pye, Lucian W., “Social science theories in search of Chinese realities,” The China Quarterly, No.132 (December 1992), pp. 1161–70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

11 See Robert S. Ross and Paul H. B. Godwin, “New directions in Chinese security studies,” in Shambaugh, American Studies of Contemporary China, pp. 138–162; and Shambaugh, David, “Appendix: a bibliographical essay on new sources for the study of China's foreign relations and national security,” in Robinson, Thomas W. and David, Shambaugh (eds), Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 603–618.Google Scholar