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...serious scientific inquiry in the Soviet Union, to a lesser extent in France, Germany and Britain. In the U.S., the treatment is available principally in San Francisco's Chinatown. Even in its homeland, acupuncture was being phased out by officials before the Communist takeover in 1949. Then Mao Tse-tung realized that it would be impossible to train China's 500,000 traditional practitioners in Western medicine. So he deliberately encouraged the nation's Western-trained doctors to study the old ways as well as the new. It is this latest generation of physicians that has extended...
...frequent consultant to the U.S. Government. Younger experts wryly refer to him as "King John." Starting as an expert on 19th century China, Fairbank has long argued for serious, sustained attention to the mainland. Historian Benjamin Schwartz's interests range widely, from Confucian thought to the rise of Mao; Ezra Vogel is a pioneer in the growing field of China sociology. Jerome Cohen was one of the first Westerners to become knowledgeable about Chinese law. Historian James Thomson Jr., a Kennedy and Johnson Administration adviser, is already a leader in the imminently expanding area of Chinese-American relations...
...recognition of China twelve years ago, has nevertheless become anathema to many younger scholars for supporting U.S. involvement in Viet Nam during the Johnson Administration. At the opposite pole is H. Franz Schurmann, a sociologist and historian, probably the most respected of the experts who are highly sympathetic to Mao. Schurmann's Ideology and Organization in Communist China (1966) impressed scholars with its data-laden explanation of how Mao has managed to inspire and organize masses of people to work on economic and social projects without having to apply strict management procedures...
...widely traveled historian of Sino-Soviet relations and a dazzling teacher. Stanford's cadre also includes Political Scientist John Lewis and John Gurley, a well-thought-of older economist with Maoist sympathies. Anthropologist G. William Skinner, by poring over maps, gazetteers and economic records, correctly predicted that Mao would subdivide China's large communes into agricultural units of a more traditional size...
...Scientist Edward Friedman and Washington University Historian Mark Selden explain in a recent collection of essays titled America's Asia, is the ways in which they believe American power has "channeled, distorted and suppressed much that is Asia." For example, the committee supports the contention-shared by both Mao and Chiang-that Taiwan is an integral part of China, and urges that the island's future be worked out without U.S. pressure...