After all, the history of foreign investment in China is now entering its fourth decade, while the history of Chinese companies doing business abroad is only now being written.
In his history of the foreign scramble for China, Robert Bickers of Bristol University looks mainly at the story of west European and, to a lesser extent, American interaction with the country.
Wasserstrom, a professor of history at UC Irvine, is the author of China in the21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.
Wasserstrom, a professor of history at UC Irvine, is the author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.
The lesson of centuries of economic history is that China is likely to get stuck in the middle: neither a poor economy nor a rich one.
Shanghai, of course, is a city that has great meaning in the history of the relationship between the United States and China.
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And for those still trying to get a handle on the devastation inflicted by Hurricane Sandy, consider this: Of the 10 deadliest natural disasters in world history, five were in China.
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From the Great Wall in China to the World War II battles of Iwo Jima, a cruise-led history lesson can span thousands of years.
During the two-year history of micro blogs in China, bloggers have claimed other successes.
China has a history of rapid changes in regulation of the phone business.
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Yet, the problem for many other places that are emblematic of an old Beijing is that, in 21st-century China, they are caught in the middle of a collision between history and modernity.
The history of the deadly H5N1 strain has been traced back to infected geese in Guangdong province in China, in 1996.
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The flow of Chinese investment overseas and investment in China by foreign multinationals will, if history is a guide, spur still more trade between China and others.
Personal credit is a new business in China, and the discipline imposed by the fear of acquiring a bad credit history is sorely lacking.
Natural-history museums that are popping up in China, Japan, and the Middle East have been accused of being willing to buy from anyone.
Now, in return, National Museum Wales has shipped out artefacts which it says will give visitors in China a taste of the character of Wales, through its culture and language, history and landscape.
Yangzhou, where Marco Polo once served as a municipal official, has a history of 2, 500 years, dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period in China (771 to 403 BC) when it was called Guangling.
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