Significant Other: Staging the American in China 9780824864316
Chinese views of the United States have shifted dramatically since the 1980s, with changes in foreign relations, increas
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1. Setting the Sino-American Stage
Chapter 2. Occidentalism (Re)considered
Chapter 3. Immigrant Interculturalism: China Dream
Chapter 4. Exilic Absurdism: The Great Going Abroad
Chapter 5. Cultural Cross-Examination: Bird Men
Chapter 6. American Self-Representation: Student Wife
Chapter 7. Anti-Americanism: Dignity and Che Guevara
Chapter 8. Self-Occidentalism: Swing
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
