TY - BOOK ID - 80836251 TI - China looks at the West PY - 2015 SN - 9780813165394 0813165393 0813165407 9780813165400 9780813165424 0813165423 9780813165400 PB - Lexington, Kentucky University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - China KW - United States KW - Foreign relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80836251 AB - Chinese leaders have long been fascinated by the United States, but have often chosen to demonize America for perceived cultural and military imperialism. Especially under Communist rule, Chinese leaders have crafted and re-crafted portrayals of the United States according to the needs of their own agenda and the regime's self-image -- often seeing America as an antagonist and foil, but sometimes playing it up as a model.In China Looks at the West, Christopher A. Ford investigates what these depictions reveal about internal Chinese politics and Beijing's ambitions in the world today. In parti ER -