Huang Haifeng
Department of Political Science, University of California, Merced, CA USA.
Stud Comp Int Dev. 2021;56(1):112-130. doi: 10.1007/s12116-021-09322-z. Epub 2021 Feb 15.
For a long time, since China's opening to the outside world in the late 1970s, admiration for foreign socioeconomic prosperity and quality of life characterized much of the Chinese society, which contributed to dissatisfaction with the country's development and government and a large-scale exodus of students and emigrants to foreign countries. More recently, however, overestimating China's standing and popularity in the world has become a more conspicuous feature of Chinese public opinion and the social backdrop of the country's overreach in global affairs in the last few years. This essay discusses the effects of these misperceptions about the world, their potential sources, and the outcomes of correcting misperceptions. It concludes that while the world should get China right and not misinterpret China's intentions and actions, China should also get the world right and have a more balanced understanding of its relationship with the world.
长期以来，自20世纪70年代末中国对外开放以来，对外国社会经济繁荣和生活质量的羡慕在中国社会中颇为普遍，这导致了对国家发展和政府的不满，以及大规模的学生和移民潮。然而，最近，高估中国在世界上的地位和声望已成为中国舆论中一个更为显著的特征，以及过去几年中国在全球事务中过度扩张的社会背景。本文讨论了这些对世界的误解的影响、其潜在根源以及纠正误解的结果。结论是，虽然世界应该正确认识中国，而不是误解中国的意图和行动，但中国也应该正确认识世界，并对其与世界的关系有更平衡的理解。
