China looks at the West : identity, global ambitions, and the future of Sino-American relations / Christopher A. Ford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Christopher A., 1967-

Series:

Asia in the new millennium

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--China.

United States.

International relations.

China.

China--Foreign relations--United States.

China--Foreign relations--21st century.

Diplomatic relations.

Physical Description:

638 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2015]

Summary:

In China Looks at the West, Christopher A. Ford examines more than 150 years of Chinese intellectual engagement with America, surveying the mechanisms by which Chinese elites have controlled and manipulated domestic attitudes toward the United States. Ford explores the contents of China's "managed information space" which includes traditional media, social media, and academic research and publications-conveying political messages still subject to strict government control-to reveal how leaders from Qing dynasty officials to Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping have altered and reconstructed narratives of America to support their own political agendas. Ford concludes the volume with a series of scenario-based alternatives for how China's approaches to understanding itself and the non-Chinese world may evolve in the future-possibilities that policymakers and the public must consider as twenty-first-century global geopolitics unfold. Based on extensive research, including interviews with Chinese scholars and researchers who interpret the United States to the Chinese public and to leaders in Beijing, this groundbreaking study is essential to understanding China's global ambitions and both the nature and the future of Sino-American relations. Book jacket.

Contents:

Challenges of Sinological Epistemology

Images of America and the Telos of China's Return

America in Chinese Politics in Deng's Era of Reform

Repression, Nationalism, Chineseness, and the Roaring Nineties

Chinese Discourse in the New Century

China and America in a New World/the Inflection Point of 2008/2009

China, America, and the Future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-610) and index.

ISBN:

9780813165400

0813165407

OCLC:

893452430