TY - BOOK AU - Madsen,Richard TI - China and the American dream: a moral inquiry SN - 9780520914926 AV - E183.8.C5 M314 1995eb U1 - 303.48/251073 20 PY - 1995/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Globalization KW - bisacsh KW - International relations KW - fast KW - Buitenlandse betrekkingen KW - gtt KW - Beeldvorming KW - Politieke ideologie KW - Regions & Countries - Americas KW - hilcc KW - History & Archaeology KW - United States - General KW - United States KW - Relations KW - China KW - History KW - Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 KW - Verenigde Staten KW - Foreign relations KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - "A Philip E. Lilienthal book."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index; The moral challenge of Tiananmen: shattering a liberal myth -- America's China: creation of a liberal myth -- Nixon's China: propagation of a liberal myth -- Hopes and illusions: the institutionalization of a liberal myth -- Diplomatic normalization: moral challenges to the liberal myth -- Missionaries of the American dream: putting the liberal myth into practice -- Openness and emptiness: Chinese reactions to the liberal myth -- Searching for a dream: Chinese creations of their own myths -- Conclusion: an East-West dialogue for the next century: new myths for a new world N2 - 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 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=10213 ER -