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Meg Rithmire first visited China in 2001, the summer after her first year of college. “I remember thinking it would be an interesting country to study because it was so hard for me to understand it,” she recalls. “I figured I would never get bored.” That was true: “The more I learned, the more surprises there were in terms of the complexities.”
That early interest led to a productive, ongoing research agenda focused on China’s role in the world and economic relations between China and other countries, including the United States. The James E. Robison Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy (BGIE) unit, Rithmire has taught the required BGIE course but now heads Managing International Trade and Investment, a second-year course that considers the politics, macroeconomics, and management dilemmas of transnational trade and investment from a firm perspective.
These matchboxes, featuring actual Time magazine covers of Chinese leaders—from Chiang Kai-shek to Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping—offer a thumbnail sketch of the country’s history in the 20th century. A gift from a former student who found them at a market in China, they’re also a fun toy for Rithmire’s son, Theo, when he visits her Morgan Hall office: “Yes, he was in fact playing with matches ... but he’s almost 11 years old, so it’s okay.”
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