R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee, editors
Land Without Ghosts
Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present
$24.95, £16.95 paperback
9780520084247
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Americans have long been fascinated with European views of the United States. The many Chinese commentaries on America, however, have remained largely unavailable to the English reader. Land without Ghosts presents for the first time selections on America from Chinese writings over the last 150 years. Included are extracts from the travel diaries of nineteenth-century diplomats, a first-hand account of blacks in 1930s Alabama and of the young white Communists working to organize them.
"This welcome and much-needed volume not only offers the first time American readers a chance to view themselves from a Chinese perspective, but also makes an interesting contrast between the two diverse cultures."—Shih-Shan Henry Tsai, Pacific Historical Review
"Arkush and Lee . . . have organized the collection thematically and chronologically which helps to highlight changing views of the United States and to link such changes to developments in China."—Lucy Salyer, Journal of American History
"Arkush and Lee . . . have organized the collection thematically and chronologically which helps to highlight changing views of the United States and to link such changes to developments in China."—Lucy Salyer, Journal of American History
"At last we have a wonderful book which makes us privy to these Chinese images of the West and lets us see how they were formed and how they changed over the last century and a half."—Orville Schell, author of Discos and Democracy
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