The China Mirage
James Bradley
Little, Brown and Company
From the bestselling author of <i>Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, </i>and <i>The Imperial Cruise</i>, a riveting, revisionist history of US-China relations from the 19th century to the dawn of World War II. <br>In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind the history of America's engagement in Asia. In <i>Flags of our Fathers </i>he revealed the painful legacy of Iwo Jima; in <i>Flyboys </i>he told the unknown story of a group of lost American pilots in the Pacific; and in <i>The Imperial Cruise </i>he laid bare the hidden origins of the Spanish-American War. THE CHINA MIRAGE is his most ambitious book yet, a vast history of American-Chinese relations from its missionary origins to the eve of WWII. Sure to be controversial in its dark portraits of those whom conventional history has acclaimed, potent in its critique of the missionary instinct, and brilliant in its exploration of the power of myth and mirage to convince men and women and...