Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Of Ends and Beginnings; or, When China Existed
1
1. America's Asia: Discovering China, Rethinking Knowledge
23
2. To Be, or Not to Be, a Scholar: The Praxis of Radicalism in
Academia 67
3. Seeing and Understanding: China as the Place of Desire
101
4. Facing Thermidor: Global Maoism at Its End 143
Epilogue. Area Redux: The Destinies of "China" in the 1980s and
1990s 175
Notes 195
Bibliograpy 241
Index 257
Fabio Lanza is Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, author of Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing, and coeditor of De-Centering Cold War History: Local and Global Change.
"Lanza’s book is an important historical documentation of the
beginning of a shift in the scholarly study of Asia in the United
States and the move to critically assess the foundations of
knowledge creation."
*Critical Asian Studies*
"[A] thoughtful and meticulously researched study..."
*Sixties*
"Sheds vital light on an important US New Left intervention and
constitutes necessary reading for scholars of modern China and the
global 1960s. . . . Lanza’s sympathetic yet critical excavation of
the endeavors of CCAS offers present-day scholars, especially
scholars of East Asia working in US institutions, resources to
critically evaluate aspects of our own practices."
*Twentieth-Century China*
"Fabio Lanza has an extraordinary ability to find profound
historical signiificances in student organizations' publications
and records. . . . The contents of The End of Concern are
extremely relevant to the field [of Chinese studies] as a whole,
and this book should interest all those interested in the Global
Sixties, the intellectual histories of the American and French
Left, fellow travelers of Maoist China, and the impact of Maoism
globally."
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