| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1 | The History Cooperative

Karl Gerth. China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, number 224.) Distributed by Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asian Center. 2003. Pp. xv, 445. $50.00.
With China now running record trade surpluses, particularly with the United States, the appearance of this book is timely yet ironic. Timely, as a reminder that in China there is an aggrieved historical memory of imperialist humiliations and alleged economic exploitation in the not so distant past. Ironic, in that the post-Mao Chinese leadership has so heartedly embraced, and benefited from, the neo-liberal free trade regime that its predecessors so roundly condemned.	1
Karl Gerth's study deals with earlier Chinese resentment of foreign penetration and domination of the Chinese economy under what Mao Zedong called a "semi-colonial" condition. There is an economic history aspect to this, but Gerth does not address the complex question of whether, on balance, the Western presence hindered or stimulated China's economic development. In short, this is discourse history, the Chinese discourse about how the imperialist powers exploited China, ruined its traditional industries, and impeded modern industrialization.	. . .

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