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Book Review: Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People's Republic

Book Review: Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People's Republic Book Reviews 066503-521 Book Revs 29/6/06 2:56 pm Page 315 Anne Marie BRADY, Making the Foreign Ser ve China: Managing Foreigners in the People’s Republic. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. xxvi + 286 pp., with appen- dix and glossary. ISBN: 0-7425-1861-2 (hc). Price: US$65.00. [DOI: 10.1177/0920203X06066504] A significant amount of literature has been written on Chinese diplomacy from an official point of view. Much less, however, has been written on the subject of China’s unofficial or “people-to-people” diplomacy. Anne Marie Brady bridges this gap in her detailed account of China’s waishi system, a sys- tem which is used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to control and manipulate foreigners within China. The book concentrates on China’s management of the “Other”—meaning those foreign experts (students, diplomats, journalists, technological, techni- cal and medical advisors, academics, and all foreign employees [pp. 2–3])— mainly from Western countries, who lived in China at various times from 1920 to present day. “All foreigners and foreign things are considered to be waishi” (p. 2). “Chinese society makes a distinction between insiders and out- siders, or nei wai you bie: treat insiders and outsiders differently” (p. 14). Brady details the evolution of this complex network and the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Information: A Journal on Contemporary China Studies SAGE

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Book Reviews 066503-521 Book Revs 29/6/06 2:56 pm Page 315 Anne Marie BRADY, Making the Foreign Ser ve China: Managing Foreigners in the People’s Republic. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. xxvi + 286 pp., with appen- dix and glossary. ISBN: 0-7425-1861-2 (hc). Price: US$65.00. [DOI: 10.1177/0920203X06066504] A significant amount of literature has been written on Chinese diplomacy from an official point of view. Much less, however, has been written on the subject of China’s unofficial or “people-to-people” diplomacy. Anne Marie Brady bridges this gap in her detailed account of China’s waishi system, a sys- tem which is used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to control and manipulate foreigners within China. The book concentrates on China’s management of the “Other”—meaning those foreign experts (students, diplomats, journalists, technological, techni- cal and medical advisors, academics, and all foreign employees [pp. 2–3])— mainly from Western countries, who lived in China at various times from 1920 to present day. “All foreigners and foreign things are considered to be waishi” (p. 2). “Chinese society makes a distinction between insiders and out- siders, or nei wai you bie: treat insiders and outsiders differently” (p. 14). Brady details the evolution of this complex network and the

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