Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Moral Challenge of Tiananmen: Shattering a Liberal Myth
  • 2. America's China: Creation of a Liberal Myth
  • 3. Nixon's China: Propagation of a Liberal Myth
  • 4. Hopes and Illusions: The Institutionalization of a Liberal Myth
  • 5. Diplomatic Normalization: Moral Challenges to the Liberal Myth
  • 6. Missionaries of the American Dream: Putting the Liberal Myth into Practice
  • 7. Openness and Emptiness: Chinese Reactions to the Liberal Myth
  • 8. Searching for a Dream: Chinese Creations of Their Own Myths
  • Conclusion: An East-West Dialogue for the Next Century: New Myths for a New World.