ABSTRACT
Since 1979, more than 3,000 American students and scholars have gone to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for study. Of those students and faculty in Chinese studies who went to conduct a month or more of research in China, about 17 percent were in political science and international relations, about 6 percent in economics, and another 13 percent in sociology and anthropology. In the PRC, financial resources, power and position in the hierarchy, access to high-quality goods and services, access to the international system, and access to highly skilled personnel are among those things over which political bargains are most frequently struck. The Water Conservancy, Communications, Industrial, Agricultural and Forestry, and Railroad Ministries all come into conflict, not to mention the desire of peasants to have full reservoirs and the desire of the Ministry of Water Conservancy to keep reservoirs low so there will be room for flood waters.
