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Latin American Studies in the People's Republic of China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Mark Sidel*
Affiliation:
Yale University
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While information regarding Latin American studies programs in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union is becoming widely available to North American scholars, Latin Americanists in the United States may be surprised to know that a small, but growing, number of scholars, teachers, and researchers are studying Latin America in the People's Republic of China. This report describes the state of Latin American studies in China, its principal universities, research centers, scholarly organizations, and periodicals devoted to research on Latin America, as well as the research topics that interest Chinese scholars and the professional problems confronting Latin American studies in China. The interviews and research were conducted, usually in Chinese, in Peking and Shanghai.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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This report is based on visits and interviews conducted during an eighteen months' visit in 1979–80. The author taught American history at the Peking Foreign Languages Institute and was the first foreign visiting lecturer at the Institute of Latin American Studies in Peking.

The author wishes to thank Peter Winn (History, Tufts University, and Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University) for advice and assistance in the preparation of this report, Emilia Viotti da Costa (History, Yale), for continuing support, and Professors Sha Ding and Gao Xian (Institute of Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking) for continuing and fruitful discussions on Latin American studies in China and Sino-American Cooperation in the field.