China and the American Dream

A Moral Inquiry
1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-520-08613-5
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: University of California Press

From the "Red Menace" to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen's frank and innovative examination of the moral history of U.S.-China relations targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly strong tie between two strikingly different nations. Combining his expertise as a sinologist with the vision of America developed in Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, Madsen studies the cultural myths that have shaped the perceptions of people of both nations for the past twenty-five years.

The dominant American myth about China, born in the 1960s, foresaw Western ideals of economic, intellectual, and political freedom emerging triumphant throughout the world. Nixon's visit to China nurtured this idea, and by the 1980s it was helping to sustain America's hopefulness about its own democratic identity. Meanwhile, Chinese popular culture has focused on the U.S., especially American consumer goods—Coca-Cola was described by the People's Daily as "capitalism concentrated in a bottle."

Today we face a new global institutional and cultural environment in which the old myths no longer work for either Americans or Chinese. Madsen provides a framework for us to think about the relationship between democratic ideals and economic/political realities in the post-Cold War world. What he proposes is no less than the foundation for building a public philosophy for the emerging world order.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Madsen, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: Entertainment as Social Control  DONALD LAZERE

Further Readings

Part I. MEDIA AND MANIPULATION
Introduction

Further Readings

Reshaping the Truth: Pragmatists and Propagandists in America  ALEX CAREY

Selling to Ms. Consumer CAROL ASCHER

The Blockbuster Decades: The Media as Big Business  WALTER POWELL

The Corporate Complaint Against the Media  PETER DREIER

Conservative Media Criticism: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose  DONALD LAZERE

Part II. CAPITALISM AND AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY
Introduction

Further Readings I

Doublespeak and Ideology in Ads: A Kit for Teachers  RICHARD OHMANN

Stars, Status, Mobility JEREMY TUNSTALL I

From Menace to Messiah: The History and Historicity of Superman  THOMAS ANDRAE

Domesticating Nature TODD GITLIN

The lnfantilizing of Culture ARIEL DORFMAN

Part III. MOMENTS OF HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Introduction

Further Readings

Shirley Temple and the House of Rockefeller CHARLES ECKERT

Frank Capra and the Popular Front LEONARD QUART

The Politics of Power in On the Waterfront  PETER BISKIND

Machismo and Hollywood's Working Class  PETER BISKIND AND BARBARA EHRENREICH

Gimme Shelter: Feminism, Fantasy, and Women's Popular Fiction  KATE ELLIS

Part IV. THE MASS-MEDIATION OF POPULAR AND OPPOSITIONAL CULTURE
Introduction

Further Readings

Television's Screens: Hegemony in Transition  TODD GITLIN

The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas  TANIA MODLESKI

The Blues Tradition: Poetic Revolt or Cultural Impasse?  CARL BOGGS AND RAY PRATT

Working People's Music GEORGE LIPSITZ

Rock and Popular Culture SIMON FRITH

Part V. IDEOLOGY IN PERCEPTION, STRUCTURE, AND GENRE
Introduction

Further Readings

Representation and the News Narrative: The Web of Facticity  GAYE TUCHMAN

Daffy Duck and Bertolt Brecht: Toward a Politics of Self-Reflexive
Cinema? DANA B. POLAN

Women and Representation: Can We Enjoy Alternative Pleasure?  JANE GAINES

Masterpiece Theatre and the Uses of Tradition TIMOTHY BRENNAN

The Liberating Potential of the Fantastic in Contemporary Fairy Tales
for Children JACK ZIPES

Part VI. MEDIA, LITERACY, AND POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION
Introduction

Further Readings

The Teachings of the Media Curriculum NEIL POSTMAN

Class as the Determinant of Political Communication  CLAUS MUELLER

Charting the Mainstream: Television's Contributions to Political
Orientations GEORGE GERBNER, LARRY GROSS, MICHAEL MORGAN, AND
NANCY SIGNORJELLI

Mass Culture and the Eclipse of Reason: The Implications for Pedagogy

STANLEY ARONOWITZ

Part VII. FROM THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI: CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
Introduction

Further Readings

Ambush at Kamikaze Pass TOM ENGELHARDT

Sports and the American Empire MARK NAISON

Introduction to How to Read Donald Duck  DAVID KUNZLE

The Great Parachutist ARIEL DORFMAN AND  ARMAND MATTELART

Media Imperialism? JEREMY TUNSTALL

Part VIII. ALTERNATIVES AND CULTURAL ACTIVISM
Introduction

Further Readings
Should News Be Sold for Profit? CHRISTOPHER JENCKS

An Alternative American Communications System ROBERT CIRINO

Pacifica Radio and the Politics of Culture CLARE SPARK

A Course on Spectator Sports LOUIS KAMPF

Rethinking Guerrilla Theater, 1971, 1985 R. G. DAVIS

Public Access Television: Alternative Views DOUGLAS KELLNER

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Madsen is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is coauthor of Habits of the Heart (California, 1985) and The Good Society (1991), author of Morality and Power in a Chinese Village (California, 1984), and coauthor of Chen Village under Mao and Deng (California, 1992).