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''China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality'' is a non-fiction book by the American sinologist and cultural anthropologist Steven W. Mosher. ==Synopsis== The book is a historical overview and criticism of the material that shapes a person's perception of China. American anthropologists, newspapers, state-controlled media sources, and intellectuals such as Edgar Snow, Theodore White, and John K. Fairbank are all covered by Mosher is his writings. Being one of the first American anthropologists allowed into China following the 1979 cultural exchange program, Mosher's own personal experience with the rural southwest regions of China grant additional insight to his writings. His writing reflects his own personal travels and studies through China in a way literature from a desk-bound scholar would not be able to replicate. Mosher's book covers the perceptions and misperceptions people have had about China from the travels of Marco Polo and the author-titled "age of infatuation" during the 1930s and 1940s in which Communist China was ranked as a progressive force that the press flocked to following Edgar Snow's 1938 work, ''Red Star Over China''. The misperceptions of the West over China have waxed and waned through the belief in the ''yellow peril'' to the model ''Maoist Man'' of Communist China. Mosher lays out the self-deceptions apparent in U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to China and the change from hard-line anti-communist to raising toasts in Chairman Mao Zedong's name. Mosher points out that this was simply the most glaring example of how political expediency, ideology, and propaganda by the Chinese have constantly and consistently blinded us to the truth. The book ends on a note warning the reader that unless we can bring ourselves to view China in focus, our predictions of China's future will be ignorant and inconsequential. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「China Misperceived」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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