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Chinese and Americans: A Shared History by Xu Guoqi (review)

Chinese and Americans: A Shared History by Xu Guoqi (review) Reviews 199 Many scholars pick on China’sofficial corruption, and I used to as well. I do not anymore. Official corruption is universal. People who argue that democracy will be able to eliminate official corruption are being naïve. Just look at the United States and India, where there exists a huge gap between the rich and the poor. Wherever there is such a big gap between the rich and the poor, there must be corruption, even if it is not termed as such. Wang’s book is an important contribution to the literature on rural China and rural society, shedding more light on the understanding of rural China, and rural stability. It will be a good reading for the general public as well as graduate and undergraduate students. Dongping Han Dongping Han is a professor of history and political science at Warren Wilson College, and his research interest is in Chinese agriculture and Chinese rural areas. Xu Guoqi. Chinese and Americans: A Shared History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. xiv, 332 pp. Hardcover $39.95, ISBN 978-0-674-05253-6. This book by Xu Guoqi examines various encounters between Chinese and Americans since the mid-nineteenth century, which Xu argues are indicative of their “surprising http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Chinese and Americans: A Shared History by Xu Guoqi (review)

China Review International , Volume 23 (2) – May 11, 2018

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Reviews 199 Many scholars pick on China’sofficial corruption, and I used to as well. I do not anymore. Official corruption is universal. People who argue that democracy will be able to eliminate official corruption are being naïve. Just look at the United States and India, where there exists a huge gap between the rich and the poor. Wherever there is such a big gap between the rich and the poor, there must be corruption, even if it is not termed as such. Wang’s book is an important contribution to the literature on rural China and rural society, shedding more light on the understanding of rural China, and rural stability. It will be a good reading for the general public as well as graduate and undergraduate students. Dongping Han Dongping Han is a professor of history and political science at Warren Wilson College, and his research interest is in Chinese agriculture and Chinese rural areas. Xu Guoqi. Chinese and Americans: A Shared History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. xiv, 332 pp. Hardcover $39.95, ISBN 978-0-674-05253-6. This book by Xu Guoqi examines various encounters between Chinese and Americans since the mid-nineteenth century, which Xu argues are indicative of their “surprising

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China Review InternationalUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: May 11, 2018

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