美国的当代中国学研究作为一个领域,大约与中华人民共和国同龄。在第二次世界大战以前,美国曾有几所大学开设研究中国古文的入门课,当时被称作汉学,但是开设中国现代史课的大学却寥寥无几,更不用说讲授当代社会科学了。直到1 949年中国共产党建立政权之后,美国政府、基金会和学 As a field of contemporary Chinese studies in the United States, it is about the same age as the People’s Republic of China. Before the Second World War, there were several universities in the United States that started as introductory courses on Chinese classical prose. They were then called sinology, but there were only a handful of universities offering modern Chinese history, let alone teaching contemporary social science. After the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, the U.S. government, foundations and schools