...) gold at the end of the rainbow, and more recently as the West’s and the nation’s greatest economic success? If the exceptionalism of the California Dream betokens the future of American exceptionalism, and if the luster has faded from the state that embodies, as Wallace Stegner put it, “America…only...

..., international education, diplomatic recognition, American exceptionalism On May 2 , 1913 , just a few months after his inauguration as the president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson dispatched a letter to China s President Yuan Shikai declaring America s formal recognition of the Republic of China.1...