The China Fantasy
How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression

In 'The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression,' author James Mann paints a portrait of the forest that has been obscured by the trees. Despite three and a half decades of catch phrases ("engagement," "integration," etc.) and speech after rhetoric-filled speech made by US pre......more

Contemporary US foreign policy towards China hangs on the assumption that economic liberalization will inevitably lead towards political liberalization and advances in human rights for Chinese citizens. Mann holds the contrarian opinion (at the time of writing in 2003) that this is neither a certain......more

This short book is a helpful, if somewhat repetitive, rant against some of the ways China and Chinese foreign policy is covered, especially with regards to US-China relations. Mann argues that much of the policy of engagement towards China depends goes on the assumption China will inevitably liberal......more

As a Chinese who believes in Democracy, I found this book revealed what China is and what Chinese goverment is more close to the truth than the most western books or press have done so far.......more