Introduction / Hilary Conroy -- pt. 1. The image is formed: Asian art and international relations / Raymond G. O'Connor ; Cantonese artifacts, chinoiserie, and early American idealization of China / Jonathan Goldstein ; The commercial origins of American attitudes toward China, 1784-1844 / Jacques M. Downs ; American Board Missionaries and the formation of American opinion toward china, 1830-1860 / Murray A. Rubinstein -- pt. 2. The image grows: American diplomacy in China, 1843-1857 : the evolution of a policy / Raymond F. Wylie ; American views of China, 1900-1915 : the unwelcome but inevitable awakening / Jonathan G. Utley ; The importance of being Charley Chan / Sandra M. Hawley ; Carl Crow, Edgar Snow, and shifting American journalistic perceptions of China / Jerry Israel -- pt. 3. Images of contemporary China: The American view of China, 1957-1982 : the personal experience of a China-born sinologist / Paochin Chu ; The China syndrome : some thoughts and impressions after a 1979 trip / David B. Chan ; Democracy spring : firsthand impressions of China, 1979 / France H. Conroy ; The view from Mao's tomb / Mark A. Plummer ; How can we evaluate the economic performance of the People's Republic of China? / Ramon H. Myers ; The economies of island and mainland China : Taiwan as a systemic model / Jan S. Prybyla ; From China, with disdain : new trends in the study of China / Harry Harding ; Comparative observations : American images of China and Japan / Hilary Conroy ; Suggested readings / Jonathan Goldstein.

China assignment / by Karl Lott Rankin.
Includes index.

目錄
序言. 1905年，中國迎來首個美國大型官方代表團——250張老照片揭示晚清一段鮮為人知的外交盛事
1905年美國政府代表團亞洲之行的路線示意圖
雙重曝光
看東方：威廉•霍華德•塔夫脫與1905年美國政府代表團的亞洲之行
塔夫脫代表團成員之一弗朗西斯•W.弗羅斯特的訪華日記
塔夫脫在訪問中國期間寫給妻子的一封信
對弗朗西斯•W.弗羅斯特後代和美國歷史學家們的採訪
參考文獻.

Based on an exhibit of the Ohio Historical Society (in English). See: Looking East, William Howard Taft and the 1905 Mission to Asia : the photographs of Harry Fowler Woods http://ww2.ohiohistory.org/taft (accessed 1-22-2013).

Added keywords: Americans in China, U.S. military advisors, U.S. Army generals, Burma road, Claire Chennault, World War II China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater.

Preface. -- The Economics of Containment, 1938-1940. -- American Aid and Chinese Politics, 1939-1941. -- American Air Strategy and the Origins of Clandestine Warfare. -- Allies in a New War. -- American Military Strategy and the Chinese Nationalists. -- Chungking Intrigues. -- The General or the Generalissimo? -- The Yenan Connection. -- The Connection Broken. -- SACO! the Counter- Revolution in Action. -- The Japanese Surrender. -- Backing into the Future. -- Abbreviations and Locations of Collections Cited in the Notes. -- Notes. -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources. -- Index.

Contents: v. 1. 1784-1860 -- v. 2. 1861-1899 -- v. 3. 1900-1932 -- v. 4. 1933-.
Library has v. 1 only.
民國49 [1960].