Xu Guoqi "Chinese and Americans: A Shared History"

Xing Fang

Authors

Xing Fang Macau University of Tourism

Keywords:

Sino-American relations, Cross-cultural exchange, Transnational history, Cultural diplomacy, Shared traditions

Abstract

The book, Chinese and Americans: A Shared History, presents recounts of vivid cross-cultural exchanges between Chinese and Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at a more individual level, and intends to reveal a transnational history jointly shaped by people on the two sides of the Pacific. This history, as the book shows, becomes their “shared traditions,” which could foster a positive future of Sino-American relations.

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