Meihong xu biography of christopher

The relationship between China and the United States is extraordinarily complex, seemingly made up of equal parts hope, racism, & misunderstanding.  The hope is a product of over a century's worth of Protestant missionaries trying to bring the Good Word to an enormous population of potential converts and of millions of Chinese immigrants finding economic opportunity here in the States.  The racism too flows both ways, with each nation's people believing the other's to be barbarians.  The mutual misunderstanding comes from myriad sources, but probably has its greatest impetus in the most fundamental difference between the two cultures, the difference which paradoxically serves as the main attractant and repellent between the two : American openness and Chinese reserve.   In a sense, what each values in the other is what it has least of itself.  Th