Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-209) and index
Statesmen, scholars, and men in the street, 1900-1949 -- Farewell, Leighton Stuart! anti-Americanism in the early fifties -- Challenging a taboo : China's liberal critics and America in 1957 --Communist crusade and capitalist stronghold : Mao's everlasting revolution and the United States, 1957-1979 -- A balancing act : the People's Daily, 1979-1989-- Chinese review America : the Dushu Magazine, 1979-1989 -- Popular and not-so-popular America : the Chinese masses and the U.S.A. in the 1980s -- Shall the twain ever meet? old themes and new trends in the lastdecade of the century