BecomingasinologistmeansdeconstructingstereotypicalnotionsofChina’sriseinthetwenty-firstcentury.Thesinologistsinthisvolumeactivelythinkthroughandadapttotheirparticularhistoricalcontextsastheyconducttheirresearch.PositionedacrossvariouslocationssuchastheCzechRepublic,Mongolia,Poland,andRussia,thesescholarsusediverseapproachestomapChina’smodernevolution.Throughtherediscoveryofpost-Communistsinology,theconclusionsinthisvolumehavemajorimplicationsfortheevolutionofintellectualhistoryanditsanalysisbyemphasizingtheimportanceofindividualizedagencytothepracticeofsinology.