China Tripping

Jeremy A. Murray is Associate Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino. Perry Linkis Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside. Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Any foreigner who has spent time in China will enjoy this book. . . . [M]ost visitors to China, academics or otherwise, will recognize many of the experiences were ones they themselves had or could have had. Such encounters often had unsettling consequences, revealing that one’s assumptions about China or Chinese culture were often incorrect. . . . For older readers, much of this book will be a trip down memory lane. For younger readers it can serve as an introduction to the vagaries of research: how, despite one’s meticulous preparation, factors such as access, living conditions, politics, and much more shape one’s experience of China.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I: Early Trippers Dirty Underwear, Paul G. Pickowicz (1971) China Was Not Utopia, Anita Chan (1971) Broom? Silk? Perry Link (1973) Where Are the Child Psychologists? Martin King Whyte (1973) Third-World Students in China, Donald Clarke (1977)Part II: Openings Young Journalists, Stephen R. MacKinnon (1978–1981)The Operation of Power, Donald Clarke (1978) The Rehabilitation of Sociology, Martin King Whyte (1979) A Night with the Post Office Guys, James M. Hargett (1979) Stamp Connections, Wendy Larson (1979) Buying Socks, Perry Link (1979) A Single Room, Vera Schwarcz (1979) Death of a Tourist, Morris Rossabi (1979) Expats, Stephen R. MacKinnon (1979–1981) Part III: Stop Overexciting the Masses! No Signs, No Maps, Charlotte Furth (1981) Stop Overexciting the Masses! Thomas D. Gorman (1980) Bureaucracy and Nosiness, Donald Clarke (1980) The Stupidest Thing I Did in China, Suzanne Cahill (1980) Representative of the Bourgeoisie, Charlotte Furth (1981) Famous American Spy, Suzanne Cahill (1981) Encountering Shandong, Joseph W. Esherick (1980) High in Tibet, Melinda Liu (1980) Part IV: Where Are We Going? My Father’s Hometown, Mayfair Yang (1982) High-Rise Counterculture, Paul G. Pickowicz (1982) Second Uncle and His Wife, Mayfair Yang (1982)Manuscript, Stanley Rosen (1982) The Local Officials: Whiffs of the Qing Dynasty, Mayfair Yang (1982) A Fitting Chair, Jennifer Anderson (1983) Thank You Very Much, Dru C. Gladney (1984)Where Are We Going? Thomas D. Gorman (1984)Old Lady, Stanley Rosen (1985)Part V: Reading Tea LeavesBooks on Secondary Extraction, Geoffrey Ziebart (1985)Making Assumptions, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (1986) Internal Document, Stanley Rosen (1986) Brotherhood, Geoffrey Ziebart (1987) Mickey Mouse at Peking U, David Moser (1988) Reading Tea Leaves, Richard P. Madsen (1988–1989) Eating Bitterness, Vera Schwarcz (1989) From Clayderman to Cui Jian, James A. Cook (1991) Catholic Church in Tianjin, Richard P. Madsen (1992) Part VI: Welcome to Our Foreign Friends Welcome to Our Foreign Friends, David Moser (1994) Cradle of the Revolution, Andrew D. Morris (1996) A Night at the Movenpick, Perry Link (1996) Opium War, Andrew D. Morris (1996) Special Powers, Jeremy Brown (1997) Relationships, Not Names, David Moser (1998) Estrangement, Nick Admussen (1999) Part VII: Today’s Everyday Living in the White House, Marketus D. Presswood (2000) The Loudness of the Lambs, Dru C. Gladney (2003–2004) Men’s World, Jeremy Brown (2004) Malleable Rules, Philip F. Williams (2004) Tashkurgan, Justin M. Jacobs (2007)Mainlander, Jeremy A. Murray (2008) Avoiding Long Lines, Paul G. Pickowicz (2010) Hainan Fishing Captain, Jeremy A. Murray (2012) Black Is Beautiful! Marketus D. Presswood (2013) Darth Vader and the Triceratops, Maggie Greene (2014) A Phone Call from the Party Secretary, Melinda Liu (2016) Afterword, Minxin Pei About the Contributors