Interesting article on Area Studies in China. While there surely are plenty of mediocre outputs resulting from this Party-driven push, colleagues across China I've met working on post-Soviet region are deeply knowledgeable, providing a fresh, non-Eurocentric perspective
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Executive Summary: On March 10, the People’s Daily ran an article by Jing Ge (靳戈) of Peking University’s Institute for Area Studies on how the “regional and country studies” (区域国别学) discipline should ...
