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Fateful ties : a history of America's preoccupation with China

Chang, Gordon H

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\"Americans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether the rising Asian power is friend or foe but certain it will play a crucial role in America's future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang says. For centuries, Americans have been convinced of China's importance to their own national destiny. China has held a special place in the American imagination from colonial times, when Jamestown settlers pursued a passage to the Pacific and Asia. In the post-Mao era, Americans again embraced China as a land of inexhaustible opportunity, playing a central role in its economic rise. Through portraits of entrepreneurs, missionaries, academics, artists, diplomats, and activists, Chang demonstrates how ideas about China have long been embedded in America's conception of itself and its own fate.\" --Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Subject: Public opinion United States History. / United States Relations China. / China Relations United States. / China Foreign public opinion, American.
• ISBN: 9780674050396, 0674050398

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E183.8.C5 C417 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE