China’s Research on China is Already Severely Self Semi-Colonialized

Abstract In a global context, scholarly monographs occupy the most basic and important position in virtually all fields of scholarly endeavor, but China’s policy has been to discourage, even eliminate, the production of scholarly monographs, its intention being to make journal articles the fundamental literature in all fields of study. The result is that monographic studies of China have come to be dominated completely by foreign English-language works, with virtually no research by China’s own scholars. China needs urgently to emphasize once more weighty monographic studies of China in Chinese, to correct what amounts to a self-imposed colonialization of Chinese China studies.