Enjoying what is often termed the most important bilateral relationship in the world, the two sometimes cooperate, but often compete, as their interests come into conflict. It also has suggestions for a critical pedagogy of imperialism in the American Studies and EFL classroom.Ĭhina and the United States, two massive economic and military powers, cannot avoid engaging with each other.
Using an intersection and mosaic of diverse texts, an open-ended mini-focus for the critical classroom is suggested, along with some related desiderata in research. I propose a kind of hermeneutic prism on America's present hegemonism, seen through the lens of a specific past watershed in its genealogy, a history of imperial mentality. 'The Project for the New American Century,' with multiple ties to the top echelon in the Bush administration, is a showcase example of that strategy, reflective of what some see as a shift from an age of American Republic to an age of overt American Empire (Vidal 2002).
imperial expansion & the concept of "redeemer nation" (Tuveson 1968). This paper explores an insidious contradiction between rhetoric and reality, a political paradox and primal tension that inhabit the very master script of the American Republic and its national mythology: democratic ethos vs.
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