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China and the American Dream - A Moral Inquiry (Hardcover, New)
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China and the American Dream - A Moral Inquiry (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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