STUDY OF CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES Zhang Qingmin (39) U.S. scholars studying Chinese foreign policy used to treat China as a monolithi c rational actor. With the expansion of the community of foreign policy analysts , however, some of them begin to support or test their theories by applying them to the study of Chinese foreign policy. Meanwhile, more and more scholars in th is field employ foreign policy analysis approaches to their work, adopting a mul tilevel and multicausal method. The integration of the two groups promotes the s tudy of Chinese foreign policy in both depth and breadth, characterizing the cur rent trend in this field.