Visit To China. "people's Daily", The President Of The United States Reported Studies

With the analysis of the reports on the U.S. President's visit to China in People's Daily, the author focus on solving the following two issues:fist, the U.S. image and its evolution presented in the reports of the U.S. President's visit to China (how to understand the United States); second, starting from the U.S. image, the analysis tries to find out China's self-image cognition and its change (how to understand China itself).Combing the history reports of the U.S. President's visit to China, the author found that the reports clearly reflect four stages and three changes of the development in Sino-US relations:The first change occurred during the Nixon, Ford's visit to China China's attitude toward the United States changes from hostility to contact; The second change occurred during Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush's visit to China when China's attitude toward U.S. shifted from contact to worship of modern, and then to comprehensive look at the U.S.; The third change occurred during the Clinton, Bush and Obama's visit to China, with the peaceful rising, China began to seek equal dialogue with the United States. So, if we evaluate the significance of Obama's visit to China from a historical perspective, that is Obama's visit to China opens a new era of equality between the two countries.President's visit reports also reflect a changing image of U.S. Overall: U.S. image has changed from simple-negative to complex multi-faceted. Before the establishment of Diplomatic Relations, the U.S. is "American imperialism". After that, U.S. image gradually became more complex:power politics, military hegemony, economic development, words and deeds often in International association and Sino-U.S. contacts.In addition, while showing the image of the United States, President's visit reports also reflect changes in China's image. Each U.S. image appears as China's "other" in that specific historical conditions. Rotten U.S. imperialism appears as the "other" of flourishing socialist China; Modern American, the world power appears as the "other" of backward China; Hegemony and power politicsof the United States appears as the "other" of China's Peaceful Rise. During the image change of "Other" and "We", Perception of China to the United States experienced a "negative - positive - both positive and negative "process, and China's self-awareness and national mentality also gone through a "blind self-confidence - self-esteem - self-confidence" process. In the process of understanding and self-awareness, China also reflected on their own,and then accommodate the differences with a more tolerant attitude, welcome the cooperation with a more open attitude, understand the U.S. culture with a more sincere intention.