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...diet of tranquilizers? Electrodes in the hotspots of the brain? Genetic engineering? The men in white jackets are waiting with newfangled anger cures. The scientist who invents bombs also invents alternatives. If these cures appear nearly as frightening as the malady they treat, who knows? Perhaps a better kind of cure is simply to get angry, just a little angry, about anger...
COLUMBIA has long been known for the work done by Literary Historian William de Bary and Translator-Critic Burton Watson in assembling source material on classical Chinese literary traditions. Political Scientist Donald W. Klein is a biographer of current Chinese leaders; O. Edmund Clubb, who was U.S. consul-general in Peking until 1950, has taken a leading role in publicizing the arguments for new U.S. initiatives toward China. Michel Oksenberg, a younger scholar, has shown that bureaucratic decisions in China, far from being totalitarian, can be as complex as they...
Other leading scholars include the University of Chicago's Political Scientist Tang Tsou, author of a provocative analysis of U.S. failures to understand China during and after World War II; Chicago Historian Ping-ti Ho, an authority on social mobility and population trends; and A. Doak Barnett, now at Washington, D.C.'s Brookings Institution, a protean expert on Chinese government and foreign policy. Barnett long urged a U.S. China policy of "containment without isolation...
China scholarship is nothing if not passionate. One feud at Yale in the early 1960s involved husband-wife Historians Arthur and Mary Wright and Political Scientist David Rowe. The Yale Daily News had a field day describing the "Rowe-Wright row." Rowe, a staunch defender of Chiang Kaishek, attacked the Wrights, who backed a more pragmatic policy toward Peking, for being too far left...
...believe that China's social experiments can teach the West something new about achieving prison reforms, operating public health programs, and developing an industrial economy that does not have wide differences in income and does not depend heavily on a technocratic elite. Another committee concern, as Wisconsin Political 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...