China in the American political imagination / edited by Carola McGiffert ; foreword by John J. Hamre.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. The Role of Images in Twentieth-Century Foreign Policy -- 1. Images and U.S. Strategic Thinking on China / Kurt Campbell -- 2. American Images of a Rising China: Lessons from History and Theory / David M. Edelstein -- 3. America First / Nancy Bernkopf Tucker -- II. Evolution of U.S. Perceptions Toward China: 1789 to Present -- 4. American Perceptions of China, 1789-1911 / Warren I. Cohen -- 5. Hopes and Fears of 60 Years: American Images of China, 1911-1972 / Terrill E. Lautz -- 6. Left, Right, Mainstream, and Goldilocks: America's Perceptions of China after 1972 / James Mann -- III. Shaping U.S. Perceptions: Politics and the Press -- 7. China through Distant Eyes / Frank Jannuzi -- 8. Challenging the Establishment Image of China / Ellen Bork -- 9. Coverage of China in the American Press / Steven Mufson -- IV. Value and Interest-Based Perceptions: Security, Business, Human Rights, and Democracy -- 10. Perceptions of the American National Security Elite / Michael D. Swaine -- 11. Images Past and Present: Human Rights, Religious Freedom, and Labor Unrest / Mike Jendrzejczyk -- 12. The Matter of Business / Robert A. Kapp -- 13. Chinese Democracy in the American Political Imagination / Anne F. Thurston -- V. Chinese Perceptions of U.S. Attitudes -- 14. Chinese Perceptions of U.S. Attitudes / Yuan Peng -- 15. How Americans See Us / Zhang Xinghui.