Americans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether
the rising Asian power is friend or foe but certain it will play a
crucial role in America's future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang
says. For centuries, Americans have been convinced of China's
importance to their own national destiny. Fateful Ties draws on
literature, art, biography, popular culture, and politics to trace
America's long and varied preoccupation with China. China has held
a special place in the American imagination from colonial times,
when Jamestown settlers pursued a passage to the Pacific and Asia.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Americans plied a
profitable trade in Chinese wares, sought Chinese laborers to build
the West, and prized China's art and decor. China was revered for
its ancient culture but also drew Christian missionaries intent on
saving souls in a heathen land. Its vast markets beckoned
expansionists, even as its migrants were seen as a "yellow peril"
that prompted the earliest immigration restrictions. A staunch ally
during World War II, China was a dangerous adversary in the Cold
War that followed. In the post-Mao era, Americans again embraced
China as a land of inexhaustible opportunity, playing a central
role in its economic rise. Through portraits of entrepreneurs,
missionaries, academics, artists, diplomats, and activists, Chang
demonstrates how ideas about China have long been embedded in
America's conception of itself and its own fate. Fateful Ties
provides valuable perspective on this complex international and
intercultural relationship as America navigates an uncertain new
era.
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