 “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.”
Although I am usually happy to quote Shakespeare with thespian flourish, I have to admit that I’m in a quandary on this one...
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“When China wakes,” Napoleon said, “it will shake the world.” No one can doubt that this summer’s Olympics are meant to signal that that long sleep is over—if indeed any of us needed reminding. UC San Diego’s global reach is evident in the China experts it has in many disciplines, and we tapped into some of that expertise in the following pages. Professor Susan Shirk’s article, adapted from her new book The Fragile Superpower, examines the problematic nature of this new resurgent China. Professor Joseph Esherick brings us a very personal sense of Chinese history as he traces his wife’s family back 700 years. Sara Bongiorni, ’88, experienced our billion-dollar trade gap with China in a very personal way when she and her family tried to live for a year without buying any Chinese imports. She writes about her experience after she published her book A Year Without ‘Made in China’. And we take a look at another even less welcome import, in “The Brown Cloud,” the pollution threatening our own water supply, which is being monitored by Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Finally our “Looking Back” column from Ivy Chou, M.F.A. 04, relates her recent experiences working in Shanghai.
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