Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Of Ends and Beginnings; or, When China Existed  1
1. America's Asia: Discovering China, Rethinking Knowledge  23
2. To Be, or Not to Be, a Scholar: The Praxis of Radicalism in Academia  67
3. Seeing and Understanding: China as the Place of Desire  101
4. Facing Thermidor: Global Maoism at Its End  143
Epilogue. Area Redux: The Destinies of "China" in the 1980s and 1990s  175
Notes  195
Bibliograpy  241
Index  257

About the Author

Fabio Lanza is Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, author of Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing, and coeditor of De-Centering Cold War History: Local and Global Change.

Reviews

"Lanza’s book is an important historical documentation of the beginning of a shift in the scholarly study of Asia in the United States and the move to critically assess the foundations of knowledge creation."
*Critical Asian Studies*

"[A] thoughtful and meticulously researched study..."
*Sixties*

"Sheds vital light on an important US New Left intervention and constitutes necessary reading for scholars of modern China and the global 1960s. . . . Lanza’s sympathetic yet critical excavation of the endeavors of CCAS offers present-day scholars, especially scholars of East Asia working in US institutions, resources to critically evaluate aspects of our own practices."
*Twentieth-Century China*

"Fabio Lanza has an extraordinary ability to find profound historical signiificances in student organizations' publications and records. . . . The contents of The End of Concern are extremely relevant to the field [of Chinese studies] as a whole, and this book should interest all those interested in the Global Sixties, the intellectual histories of the American and French Left, fellow travelers of Maoist China, and the impact of Maoism globally."
*China Review*