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The China Quarterly and Contemporary China Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2009

David Shambaugh
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It is an honour and pleasure to join in this commemorative symposium of the 50th anniversary of The China Quarterly, still the field's flagship journal. The journal is entering its “middle age” in fine form. Like most who turn 50, The China Quarterly has had its ups and downs, its signature moments and trying times, but has sustained itself with a sense of purpose and strong identity, supported by its extended family (contributors, readers, staff and editorial board). The China Quarterly has been a living chronicle and window for the world to view one of the most important countries on earth. The China Quarterly has much to be proud of over the past half century, but journal's best days hopefully still lie ahead.

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Editorial Reflections on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of The China Quarterly
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The China Quarterly , Volume 200 , December 2009 , pp. 911 - 916
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2009

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References

1 E.g. “China, China Studies, and The China Quarterly”; “Focus on Rural China”; “Rural Family Change”; “Focus on Urban China”; “Chinese Foreign Policy”; “Issues in the History of Shanghai” “Whither Chinese Leninism”; “Who Will Feed China?”; “Nationalism and Chinese Foreign Policy.”

2 E.g. “China's Legal Reforms,” “China's Transitional Economy”; “Greater China”; “The Chinese Military Towards 2000”; “The Chinese Economy in the 1990s”; “Reappraising Republication China”; “Deng Xiaoping: Portrait of a Chinese Statesman”; “Taiwan Today.”

3 E.g. “Defining China's Rural Population”; “Central–Provincial Relations: A Mid-Term Assessment”; “Civil-Military Relations in Transition.”

4 Individual assessments were published about contemporary China studies in Canada, France, Vietnam, Scandinavia, and India.

5 E.g. “Social Science Theories in Search of Chinese Realities”; “Chinese Politics in the Late-Deng Era”; “Grasping Reform: Economic Logic, Political Logic, and the State-Society Spiral”; “China's Fuzzy Transition: Leninism to Post-Leninism”; “Stability, Growth, and Reform”; “Economic Growth in China between the Wars.”

6 E.g. “New Light on the Second United Front”; “An Exchange of Views about Basic-Level Chinese Organization.”

7 See, e.g. Ash, Robert F., Shambaugh, David, and Takagi, Seiichiro (eds.), China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan, and the United States (London: Routledge, 2007)Google Scholar; See Chung, Jae Ho, “Studies of Contemporary Chinese Politics in Korea: An Assessment,” The China Quarterly, No. 194 (2008)Google Scholar. A good survey of Australian China studies remains to be published.

8 See Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik, “China Studies in Europe,” in Shambaugh, David, Sandschneider, Eberhard, and Hong, Zhou, (eds.), China and Europe: Perceptions, Policies & Prospects (London: Routledge, 2007), p. 55Google Scholar. Brødsgaard's survey offers considerable details and insights into the state of the China field in Europe today, and is recommend reading.

9 The Chinese Studies Center at Ain Shams University in Cairo is the exception to the rule.