To find out, we went to an expert: Rupert Hoogewerf, an accountant and sinologist who spent two years living in Shanghai.

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An 1883 profile portrait of Henri Cordier, an eminent Sinologist, writing in his study surrounded by books and papers reveals a touch of Edgar Degas.

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Sinologist David Shambaugh sat down with Orville Schell of the Asia Society in New York this week to discuss his new book, China Goes Global.

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