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When he arrived, he wanted "to find out why China has lagged behind technologically," he says, adding he has discovered only some pieces of the answer. Huang says he has learned that "cultural factors, and the emphasis on a communal lifestyle, are inherently hostile elements to good organization." China's new open-mindedness toward the West, he adds, hopefully will dispel its "threatening self-assumed superiority and self-indulgent nostalgia...
...feels China has begun to shed its view that economic impoverishment stems solely from imperialist exploitation by the West. When he returned home for thesis research last summer, Huang says other scholars were starved for his Harvard-acquired knowledge of Western scientific techniques and the world economic system...
Vikram K. Chand, a teaching fellow who awarded Huang's thesis a grade of summa minus, calls the essay "better than a lot of published work on the subject...
...pretty inspired piece of writing," Chand says, because of Huang's use of empirical research within an excellent theoretical framework. Huang also profited from special access to a variety of Chinese sources, Chand adds...
...Huang's background includes two years as a research assistant on political economy issues for Raymond Vernon, the eminent Dillon Professor of International Affairs Emeritus, Vernon calls Huang "outstanding, bright, Industrious--everything you want in a research assistant...