China Watch

John King Fairbank

    • Introduction: The Growth of Chinese History in American Minds

      Part One: New Views of Imperialism

    1. The Motive Power of Opium
    2. Missionary and Cowboy Attitudes: America’s “Special Relationship” with China
    3. Missionary Journalism in China
    4. Missionary History as Fiction
    5. Sinology Gone Astray: A Peking Confidence Man
    6. Two Faces of Japanese Imperialism in China
    7. Joe Stilwell, All–American, and His Mission to China
    8. Douglas MacArthur and American Militarism

      9. Part Two: Penetrating Mao’s China

    9. First Impressions, 1971–1972
    10. Mao’s Labor Camps
    11. The Grip of History on China’s Leadership
    12. The Search for Chinese Individualism
    13. Chiang Ch’ing: A First Approximation
    14. The Succession Crisis of 1976 and the End of the Mao–Chou Era

      15. Part Three: The Road to Normalization

    15. Reappraisal of Chinese Aggressiveness: The 1962 Border War with India
    16. Mao’s Shift Outward and Nixon’s First Trip to Peking
    17. Solving Our “One China” Problem

      18. Part Four: The Cultural Revolution

    18. Origins of the Cultural Revolution
    19. Revolution and Reform in a Shansi Village
    20. How to Be a Red Guard
    21. Mao’s Struggle for a New Educational System
    22. Growing Up during the Cultural Revolution

      23. Part Five: Fallout: America’s Disillusioned Optimism

    23. Uncovering the Evils of the Cultural Revolution
    24. The Now–It–Can–Be–Told Reports of Journalists
    25. We Still Confront Two Chinas
    26. Parallels and Problems
    • Afterword
    • Index
  • Cover: China Watch
  • A photo of the author

John King Fairbank was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard University.