How Did You Approach the Study of China?

i wanted to ask, you know, once you started more full time working on china, and over the next couple of decades, what or who has had the biggest impact on how you think about china. Any sort of huristics or frameworks which have done the ork or comparative lens? I mean, any mentors or individuals or scholars, ir really shaped how you thought about the field and the craft. Probably here too. i hae, i have two dominant influences, i think. First, mike oxenburg, who was one of the great china scholarsf youknow, in the us. Of china. He approached china. His first seminar that i took