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China Looks at the West
Identity, Global Ambitions, and the Future of Sino-American Relations
In China Looks at the West, Christopher A. Ford investigates what these depictions reveal about internal Chinese politics and Beijing's ambitions in the world today. In particular, Ford emphasizes the importance of China's "return" to global preeminence in state images, which has become an essential concept in the regime's self-image and legitimacy. He also examines the history of Chinese intellectual engagement with America, surveying the ways in which Chinese elites have manipulated attitudes toward the United States, and revealing how leaders from Qing dynasty officials to Mao Zedong and from to Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping have altered and reconstructed this narrative 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 other nations may evolve in the future. Based on extensive research, including interviews with Chinese scholars and researchers, this groundbreaking study is essential reading for policymakers and readers seeking to understand current and future Sino-American relations.
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"Christopher A. Ford's China Looks at the West is an important study establishing a foundation for understanding China's approach to the United States, which is the most important international relationship early in the twentyfirst century.
[. . .]In sum, the book provides a wellwritten discussion of several important arguments involving China's approach to the United States that will be of interest to general readers and specialists. It provides a great amount of food for thought along with wellargued assessments that nonetheless do not provide a final word on the sensitive and longstanding contentious issues discussed."
"China Looks at the West: Identity, Global Ambitions, and the Future of Sino-American Relations is an ambitious undertaking—and a remarkably successful one, for it digests a large
scholarly literature to elucidate long-term trends that can help us make sense of the changing Sino-American relationship."—Online Library of Law & Liberty
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Other Titles by Christopher A. Ford
The Mind of Empire
Other Titles from Asia in the New Millennium
Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy
The Soldier Image and State-Building in Modern China, 1924-1945
Power versus Law in Modern China
Other Titles in POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian
The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China
Southeast Asia Among the World Powers, expanded edition
China's Strategic Arsenal