The first two books are academic studies of Chinese foreign policy: the Gurtov-Hwang analysis stresses the importance of domestic priorities in the making of foreign policy in China, while Armstrong weighs the influence of ideology. Mary Bullock's book is the history of the Beijing Union Medical College since its establishment by the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1920s. By tracing the careers of some of the BUMC graduates up to the present, the author demonstrates the substantial impact they had on Chinese medicine, and the price they had to pay after the communists came to power, when they were often singled out for thought reform and accused of being agents of "American imperialism." Now, because there is a new post-Mao emphasis on rigorous training in all scientific fields, BUMC graduates are being called back again into service.