 <unk> of the Dixie Mission contributed to the nationwide Red Scare in the 1950s and 1960s . <unk> relations between the People 's Republic of China and the United States in the 1970s opened a new chapter for the mission . For the first time , the mission and its participants became the subject of serious scholarship , and many of the mission participants were among the first Americans invited to visit China in twenty years . In China , the Dixie Mission is remembered as a positive time between the two nations , and a symbol of Sino @-@ American cooperation . 
