Distorted mirrors : Americans and their relations with Russia and China in the twentieth century / Donald E. Davis, Eugene P. Trani.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Thomas R. Pickering -- Foreword to the Russian Edition / Vyacheslav Nikonov -- Introduction. Distortions in the Looking Glass -- Pt. I. Russia -- 1. "Soviet Sam" and the Emigres -- 2. The Boys from Riga -- 3. Assignment in Utopia -- 4. Honeymooners -- 5. Chums -- 6. Mr. X -- 7. Gray Eminence -- Pt. II. China -- 8. Missionary Diplomacy -- 9. Pragmatist in China -- 10. Red Star over China -- 11. The Novelist and the Ambassador -- 12. The President and the Generalissimo -- 13. Luce's Man in Chungking -- 14. Gurus -- Old Conclusions, New Beginnings.

"As the United States enters the twenty-first century, it confronts two powers that loomed less large on the world stage a century before. Yet American policies toward Russia and China have been shaped by attitudes going back even further, as this book relates." "Distorted Mirrors traces American prejudices toward the two countries by focusing on the views of the twentieth century. Donald Davis and Eugene Trani show where American images of Russia and China originated, how they evolved, and how they have often helped sustain foreign policies generally negative toward the former and positive toward the latter."--BOOK JACKET.