Date of Submission
Spring 2021
Academic Program
Global and International Studies
Project Advisor 1
Michelle Murray
Project Advisor 2
Robert Culp
Abstract/Artist's Statement
This project explores how the U.S. discursive framework on China results in consistently limited foreign policy approaches, because it engages with a construction of China that exists only in imagination. I trace this modern political discourse from its reestablishment of Sino-American relations under Nixon. Then move on to the Obama administration, which represents an important juncture in China’s rise to global superpower. I then conclude with the short tracing of this discourse and related foreign policy in the Trump and Biden administrations.
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Recommended Citation
Bailey, Emma K., "Imagining China: Exploring the Discursive limitations on Foreign Policy" (2021). Senior Projects Spring 2021. 78.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2021/78
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