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The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression - Book review
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China fantasies and China policies.
The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression James Mann New York: Viking Press, 2007
James Mann's new book, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, is getting a lot of attention. This is no surprise. Mann is a former Los Angeles Times Beijing bureau chief and longtime follower of U.S.-Chinese relations. He has previously written two snappily titled high-profile books on the People's Republic of China, Beijing Jeep: The Short. Unhappy Romance of American Business in China (1990) and About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship to China, from Nixon to Clinton (2000). His last book, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet (2004), which tracked the influence of neo-conservatives on foreign policy, was a bestseller and showed that Mann had a wider range of expertise beyond China. American interest in China is running high once again, and his new book, likewise, should make a splash. It is too bad, then, that Mann's arguments are so flawed; as is the title, apart from its initial appeal. The third word is incorrect. There have long been eleme...See the full content of this document
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