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vii Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | xi 1. The Pendulum Swings . . . and Swings Again | 1 2. East Meets West: Cultural Collisions and Marks of Difference | 17 3. Questions of Otherness: From Opium Pipes to Apple Pie | 50 4. The Cold War in Three Acts | 95 5. The World Splits in Two | 151 6. Challenges and Continuities | 181 Afterword: The Darkening Mirror | 214 NOTES | 219 BIBLIOGRAPHY | 245 INDEX | 257 ...

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