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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Before Mr Kissinger himself enters the narrative, the reader is offered 200 pages of history of modern China and its foreign relations.
There is a lot of unresolved history in China, some of it too recent and too painful to address, but not far below the surface.
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.
But there's a long history in China of foreign companies invited in to get an industry started and then pushed aside in favor of domestic firms.
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.
During the two-year history of micro blogs in China, bloggers have claimed other successes.
It is the "Russian" Far East, territory that some maps, history books and citizens of China have never conceded.
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 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.
China has a history of quickly reversing course after talking tougher with North Korea.
China has a history of rapid changes in regulation of the phone business.
Unlike other foreign governments, China has a history of encouraging and rewarding private individuals to obtain technology on its behalf.
The anglophone actors take centre stage rightly, perhaps, at first, given the pioneering role played by the British in China's history of humiliation.
China has a history of mobilizing its masses for a common purpose.
"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.
After all, China has a history of playing fast and loose with existing trade agreements by unfairly withholding rare earth materials from markets, and unfairly subsidizing their emerging markets on everything from light vehicle tires to solar panels.
Most of his professional life had been spent unremarkably, teaching history in universities and compiling a 74-part encyclopedia of China.
"I feel like I'm standing at the crossroads of history, " Chen said ahead of the visit, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported.
Bottom line: China has a long history of economic, political and military co-operation with Iran.
And, although China admires the industrial history of Japan, its economy is very different.
But there's a history of this kind of thing working in China.
China has a long history of building and maintaining Tanzanian infrastructure, most notably the Tazara railway, which was built in the first half of the 1970s.
China has a long history of using North Korea as a buffer against the US. Since the end of the Korean War, they have been leery of our strong alliance and our military presence in South Korea.
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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.
Foxconn has a controversial labor history, including a spate of worker suicides in China.
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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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