"A Journey for Peace": Spatial Metaphors in Nixon's 1972 "Opening to China". Issue 4 (30th April 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "A Journey for Peace": Spatial Metaphors in Nixon's 1972 "Opening to China". Issue 4 (30th April 2017)
- Main Title:
- "A Journey for Peace": Spatial Metaphors in Nixon's 1972 "Opening to China"
- Authors:
- Carney, Zoë Hess
Prasch, Allison M. - Abstract:
- Abstract : Richard Nixon's1972 "opening to China" is regarded as one of the most significant moments of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. Through his rhetoric before, during, and after his visit to the People's Republic of China, the president moved from established metaphors of communist nations and peoples as "savage enemies" and descriptions of "Red China" as a nation "lost" to communism to a narrative that suggested openness and friendship. In this essay, we argue that Nixon's use of spatial, territorial, and orientational metaphors such as "journey for peace, " "open the door, " "bridge, " "wall, " "common ground, " and "close the gulf, " compounded with his physical presence in China, are key for understanding the force of his rhetoric during this shift in U.S. Cold War foreign policy. In discursively and politically opening transnational U.S.–China relations, Nixon weakened the polarized East–West ideological and geographic divide and provided a new vision of Cold War geopolitics.
- Is Part Of:
- Presidential studies quarterly. Volume 47:Issue 4(2017:Dec.)
- Journal:
- Presidential studies quarterly
- Issue:
- Volume 47:Issue 4(2017:Dec.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 47, Issue 4 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 47
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0047-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 646
- Page End:
- 664
- Publication Date:
- 2017-04-30
- Subjects:
- Richard M. Nixon -- China -- U.S. foreign policy rhetoric -- Cold War -- metaphor
Executive power -- United States -- Periodicals
Presidents -- United States -- Periodicals
320.473 - Journal URLs:
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http://www.jstor.org/journals/03604918.html ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/psq.12386 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0360-4918
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