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Article: Good Deeds and Gunboats: Two Centuries of American-Chinese Encounters.
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- Monthly Review
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- February 1, 1992
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Hugh Deane spent a year in China as a Harvard exchange student in 1936-37, then an eccentric course. With time out while he served as an officer in the naval intelligence service during the Second World War, he has been deeply involved with China ever since - as journalist, co-founder of INDUSCO (Industrial Cooperatives), leader of the US-China People's Friendship Association, and editor of the US-China Review. Today he is one of the most knowledgeable "Old China Hands" in the United States and an active though sharply critical supporter of the People's Republic.
His current book, Good Deeds & Gunboats, illustrates the converse of a by now well worn truism, "the ...