Introduction: of ends and beginnings; or, when China existed -- America's Asia : discovering China, rethinking knowledge -- To be, or not to be, a scholar : the praxis of radicalism in academia -- Seeing and understanding : China as the place of desire -- Facing Thermidor : global Maoism at its end -- Epilogue. area redux: the destinies of "China" in the 1980s and 1990s
Summary
Fabio Lanza traces the history of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, a group of politically engaged academics who critiqued the field of Asian studies while looking to Maoist China as an example of alternative politics and the transformation of the meaning of labor and the production of knowledge
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index
