Spring 2001
American Purpose
Issue 1, Volume 15

Publication Date: March 1, 2001
Posted: Thursday, March 3, 2001

This issue includes 'Coping with China'; 'China's Struggle with Modernity'; 'Comments on "China's Struggle with Modernity"'; and 'U.S. Policy Toward China'


In This Issue :

Coping with China
Why has China been unable to modernize successfully when not only several of its neighbors in East Asia but also many diaspora Chinese communities have done so? Why has the century-long Chinese search for some form of democracy failed so dismally, burying the hopes and ideals of Sun Yat-sen in the bloody tyranny of the Cultural Revolution and the crushing of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square? How can we in the West best help the Chinese people emerge from Communism and find a decent and just political and economic system?  [More]

China’s Struggle With Modernity
China has been trying to join the modern world for about 140 years. The first step was taken in 1861, when the Ching court established the Office for the General Management of Affairs and Trade with Every Country. This was equivalent to a ministry of foreign affairs.  [More]

U.S. Policy Toward China
Engagement? Containment?
Michael Mandelbaum, Robert Kagan, Zalmay Kiwlilzad, and James Mann comment on the 'U.S. Policy Toward China'. [More]

Comments on 'China's Struggle with Modernity'
Roderick MacFarquhar, Yü Ying-shih, Charles Horner, and Arthur Waldron comment on 'China's Struggle with Modernity'. [More]