What influence does the history of Japanese aggression in China
have on Chinese images of and policies toward Japan today? Is
Chinese acrimony and assertiveness toward Japan in the latter 1980s
the product of calculated bargaining pressure or compulsive
emotional nationalism? And what are the prospects for Sino-Japanese
relations: increased political alignment or continued instability
and friction?
These are among the questions Allen Whiting, a leading scholar of
Chinese foreign relations, addresses in this book. Working largely
from interviews and from an examination of the Chinese media,
Whiting finds that Chinese policy toward Japan embodies an uneasy
tension between hostile imagery and pragmatic interest, manifest in
increasing tension during the years 1982-1987. He challenges the
commonplace assumptions that post-Mao Chinese foreign policy is
pragmatically determined by economic and strategic calculations.
Instead, Whiting argues that Sino-Japanese relations are vulnerable
to Chinese images based on bitter memories of Japanese aggression
combined with misperceptions of Japanese politics and society as
well as provocative remarks by Japanese officials. These images are
transmitted to younger generations by Chinese mass media with
little challenge from more informed governmental and academic
specialists. He concludes that, although there is an increased
sophistication in the Chinese understanding of the United States
and the Soviet Union, this is not yet evident in the case of Japan.
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