Alongside his new role at the university, Mr Wood is due to begin writing a new series for the BBC exploring the history of China.
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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.
Usually, the first follow-up to any mention of history where both China and the U.S. have been mentioned leads to a comment about the great length of the Chinese past and short length of the American one.
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 denial of the aggression history by Toshio Tamogami comes in as an element of disharmony, " the state-run China Daily said a commentary Monday.
"I feel like I'm standing at the crossroads of history, " Chen said ahead of the visit, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported.
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.
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.
Works like Philip Kuhn's "Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China" (1970) place the story in the context of China's long history of struggles between dynasties and those seeking to topple them, while Jen Yu-wen's "The Taiping Revolutionary Movement" (1973) goes further, insisting that Hong's movement had more in common with the revolutions that followed it than rebellions of earlier times.
Listen to scholars, pundits and officials on both sides and you get the sense that today's tense relations between Japan and China stem both from the nasty history of the 20th century and from expectations or concerns about the shape of the 21st.
The anglophone actors take centre stage rightly, perhaps, at first, given the pioneering role played by the British in China's history of humiliation.
Despite the interwoven history it is misleading to see Korea as the product of cultural triangulation between China and Japan.
During the two-year history of micro blogs in China, bloggers have claimed other successes.
And, although China admires the industrial history of Japan, its economy is very different.
"This exploration joint venture is the latest chapter in the rich history of partnerships between Rio Tinto and China, " said Rio's chief executive Tom Albanese.
The truth is Communist China has a history of producing monstrosities.
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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Before Mr Kissinger himself enters the narrative, the reader is offered 200 pages of history of modern China and its foreign relations.
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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The history of dealing with foreigners has not been good for 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.
The history of the past two centuries offers an answer: only if China projects naval power into the Pacific.
He added that China was headed for the ash heap of history, because of the number of abortions it carried out.
From this, HRNK has distilled 53 personal accounts, summarized along with the history and context of such human trafficking of North Korean women in China.
In 1960, millions of people died in the worst famine in China's history, possibly the worst in human history.
And Macau's status as the oldest--and only--European colony left in Asia means Beijing will embrace something equally novel: a testament to multiplicity, as well as a history of cultural exchange that belies the sameness and insularity that often marks modern China.
China has a history of rapid changes in regulation of the phone business.
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