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Rod has retired. Is Harvard hiring a new China guy?
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Shih maybe? who knows
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he did twilight zone, but he's long dead.
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^ lmao Shih long dead?
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Who is the best China guy today?
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^ not you
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"A new China guy." Obviously a question asked by a dude.
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I know. It's not even my field. Was just curious, monkey.
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They've already done a search and came up empty. Word in Sanlitunr is that they are going to try again, possibly at junior level.
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Tsai is a safer bet
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^ Kellee or Lily?
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Lilli for the win.
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Where was their ad. for the past year? Just curious about what they say they are looking for.
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question: why would Tsai leave a equally strong program where she has tenure.
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question: why would Shih leave a equally strong program where she has tenure.
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So this guy wasn't even really an academic until he was 50? And then he got a chair at Harvard? The China field is different.
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Was different, not so different any more.
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I never understood how he got where he did. Not only is his work way outside of the political science mainstream; his Chinese is also crap. The dude wouldn't get anywhere near Harvard today.
I will say that I've enjoyed several of his books, though.
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Chinese politics is even weaker field than AP.
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Newsflash-even now most recently minted China scholars don't speak or read Chinese very well and spend very little time in the field.
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Middle East has no experts either. However, for them, speaking the language is usually enough to land a job.
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^^Speak for yourself, bud. My Chinese rocks.
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^^^^^^^^ Idiot, Shih is not even in UCSD's polisci dept. It looks like he is only gonna stay at a tiny research institute for a year or two and move again.
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Newsflasher is confused. Fieldwork experience is the overwhelming emphasis in China studies. I think it was even explicitly mentioned as a key criterion in the Harvard search ad, which I've never seen for any other subfield. Everyone going out as a China scholar has spent at least a year in-country doing research in addition to 1-4 years of full-time language study or other experience.
Now, it is true that the non-natives among them don't speak or read the language nearly as well as Europeanists or Latin Americanists do, but that's because it takes more work to get to the same level.
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Why is that?
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^
Because Chinese is a harder language.Posted 2 months ago # -
I should have been more specific. (Everyone knows Chinese is way harder than Spanish.) Why does the China field emphasize fieldwork so much? I'm no expert, but I've seen an increasing number of quantitative papers coming from China scholars. It seems like the survey data there are getting better, so why the insistence on time spent in the country?
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^ You can order food from the "secret" menu at American chinese restaurants.
I LOVE doing that. I bet you people didn't even know about the secret menus. They give you gringos sweet and sour pork and General Tso's Chicken.
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I bet most people who think they KNOW Spanish couldn't understand a Spanish scholarly article, esse. Chinese is harder to read because of its primitive rune-like characters but beyond that, it's just another language.
(Everyone knows Chinese is way harder than Spanish.)
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You are wildly misinformed. I regularly read scholarly articles in Spanish, and my Spanish education didn't go beyond high school. All the big words are English cognates; what's hard about that? (I don't even list Spanish on my CV, because I don't consider it impressive enough to warrant mentioning.)
Good luck getting through a Chinese scholarly article with four years of in-class language instruction.
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