{"product_id":"9781743329931","title":"The Flip Side","description":"Author: Professor Stuart Christie\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781743329931\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Sydney University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Jan 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 350\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenefiting from recently catalogued archival materials, \u003ci\u003eThe Flip Side: Old China Hands and the American Popular Imagination, 19351985\u003c\/i\u003e evaluates the influence of an ensemble of well-known Americans born and bred in China  Pearl S. Buck, Henry R. Luce, Owen Lattimore and John Hersey  after their return to the United States of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe children of missionaries, all contributed in significant ways to the globalisation of the \u0026amp;#x27;American ideal\u0026amp;#x27; in the 20th century, even as each sought in different roles  as publishers, as novelists, as scholars  to centre Chinese and \u0026amp;#x27;Asian\u0026amp;#x27; values and concerns in the anglophone public sphere. The resulting torque, as Chinese ideas and values met the projection of American \u0026amp;#x27;soft\u0026amp;#x27; power and governmentality, created a uniquely bilateral, global imaginary where respect for China as an emerging force encountered Western reaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor these \u0026amp;#x27;old China hands\u0026amp;#x27;, their return to the USA resulted in then-unique (and still persisting) socio-cultural formations: \u0026amp;#x27;bifocal\u0026amp;#x27; literary perspectives (Buck); correspondence celebrity (Hersey); fortress culture (Luce); and traitor citizenship (Lattimore). As old China hands, all were keen observers of (and active participants in) international networks combining a diversity of China based expertise and resources that continued to inform their everyday work at a great distance. Both public and private, these networks, onshore and off, enabled and energised their own advocacy on behalf of a Chinese future distinct from its colonial or \u0026amp;#x27;semi-feudal\u0026amp;#x27; past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Flip Side\u003c\/i\u003e asserts that these Western stakeholders occupied a transitional but crucial role in the rise of China in Western imagination prior to China's assertion of sovereignty over its own global role and message.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46852836262046,"sku":"ADS-9781743329931","price":59.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781743329931.jpg?v=1779063285","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781743329931","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}