Oh say can you see?: American cultural blinders on China / Leigh and Richard Kagan -- The roots of rhetoric: the professional ideology of America's China watchers / James Peck -- Asian scholars and government: the chrysanthemum on the sword / Judith Coburn -- The great Asian conspiracy / John Gittings -- Occupied Japan and the American Lake, 1945-1950 / John W, Dower -- Problems in dealing with an irrational power: America declares war on China / Edward Friedman -- The United States in Laos, 1945-1962 / Jonathan Mirsky and Stephen E. Stonefield -- Capitalist and Maoist economic development / John G. Gurley -- People's war and the transformation of peasant society: China and Vietnam / Mark Selden -- Revolution and modernization: man and machine in industrializing societies, the Chinese case / Stephen Andors