China and the American dream : a moral inquiry / Richard Madsen.
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book".
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-254) and index.

From the "Red Menace" to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen's frank and innovative examination of the moral history of U.S.-China relations targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly strong tie between two strikingly different nations. Combining his expertise as a sinologist with the vision of America developed in Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, Madsen studies the cultural myths that have shaped the perceptions of people of both nations for the past twenty-five years.

The dominant American myth about China, born in the 1960s, foresaw Western ideals of economic, intellectual, and political freedom emerging triumphant throughout the world. Nixon's visit to China nurtured this idea, and by the 1980s it was helping to sustain America's hopefulness about its own democratic identity. Meanwhile, Chinese popular culture has focused on the U.S., especially American consumer goods--Coca-Cola was described by the People's Daily as "capitalism concentrated in a bottle."

Today we face a new global institutional and cultural environment in which the old myths no longer work for either Americans or Chinese. Madsen provides a framework for us to think about the relationship between democratic ideals and economic/political realities in the post-Cold War world. What he proposes is no less than the foundation for building a public philosophy for the emerging world order.

Link to Library of Congress Publisher decription and bibliographic record.

Description keywords: Tian’anmen 天安門 -- student movement, 1989 -- Chinese-American cultural myths, vies on democracy, capitalism, public philosphy, world order

East Asian art and American culture : a study in international relations /  Warren I. Cohen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-252) and index.

1. Art and American Understanding of East Asian Culture, 1784-1900 -- 2. The Golden Age of East Asian Art Collecting in America, 1893-1919 -- 3. Professionalism in America, Chaos in China: John Lodge and Langdon Warner -- 4. War, Depression, Opportunity -- 5. The Fortunes of War: America's East Asia -- 6. The East Asian Art Historians.

This is a beautifully illustrated book and a lively, entertaining, illuminating discussion of the contribution and effects of East Asian art on American culture. Warren Cohen portrays the assembling of the great American collections of East Asian art, public and private, and the idiosyncrasies of the collectors. Particular attention is focused on how this art became part of the cultural consciousness of the people of the United States, transforming their culture into something more complex than the Western civilization their ancestors brought from Europe. Cohen tells of art collectors, dealers, and historians, of museums and their curators, of art and imperialism, art and politics, art as an instrument of foreign policy. One of America's leading diplomatic historians, Cohen views art as an important part of international relations. He describes the use of art in "cultural diplomacy" to implement policy by China, Japan, and the United States. He argues that "virtually every act in the movement of art between cultures has political implications." The book demonstrates how art collecting interacts with the shifting rhythms of international politics and the business cycle. The recent decline in American economic power, with Japan emerging preeminent, was first obvious in the art world where American collectors found themselves unable to compete with their Japanese and Hong Kong counterparts and watched great works begin to move back across the Pacific.

Vanessa Künnemann, Ruth Mayer / Transnational Nationalisms – China and the United States in a Pacific World. An Introduction. PART I: NATIONALISMS AND CONFIGURATION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES . Yong Chen / The American Dream and Dreams of China: A Transnational Approach to Chinese American History - Klaus Mühlhahn / National Studies and Global Entanglements: The Re-Envisioning of China in the Early Twentieth Century - Nicola Spakowski / China in the World: Constructions of a Chinese Identity in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century.
PART II: CHINESE AMERICA, CITIZENSHIP, NATIONALITY, AND THE WORLD. Ruth Mayer / Paper Citizens and Biometrical Identification. Immigration, Nationality, and Belonging in Chinese America during the Exclusion Era -- Madeline Y. Hsu / Befriending the Yellow Peril: Student Migration and the Warming of American Attitudes towards Chinese, 1905-1950 – K. Scott Wong / Between the 'Mountain of Tang' and the 'Adopted Land': The Chinese American Periodical Press and the Emergence of Chinese American Identities in the Face of Exclusion.
PART III: MISSIONARY INTERVENTIONS: CULTURAL MEDIATION IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES. Thoralf Klein / Christian Mission and the Internationalization of China, 1830-1950 - Vanessa Künnemann / Following with bleeding footsteps?' American Missions in China and the (Gendered) Critique of Pearl S. Buck - Dominika Ferens / The Deserving Heathen: Missionary Ethnography of China and its American Converts.