China is on its way to being recognized as one of the major global business partners in Asia. Financially, the nation has logged a promising first quarter with the promise of even greater prosperity by the end of '98. China's approach to its...

Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People's Republic of China. By Anne-Marie Brady. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Pp. xvi, 312. Paperback $24.95. Anyone who has lived and worked in China is familiar with the foreign affairs...

Explains the failure of China's imperial government to respond effectively to Western demands for diplomatic relations and free trade between 1793 and 1839.

Evaluates China's ineffective relationship with the West up to 1842, largely due to China's traditional attitude of foreign inferiority. The Chinese attitude principally stemmed from a philosophy of an innate superiority, their self-imposed isolation and the success of the Tang Dynasty.