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China's Brave New World: And Other Tales for Global Times

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If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjing's bookstore, the Librairie Avant-Garde, where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucault's philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a latte at Starbucks in Beijing? Is it possible that Aldous Huxley wrote a novel even more useful than Orwell's 1984 for making sense of post-Tiananmen China—or post-9/11 America? In these often playful, always enlightening "tales," Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom poses these and other questions as he journeys from 19th-century China into the future, and from Shanghai to Chicago, St. Louis, and Budapest. He argues that simplistic views of China and Americanization found in most soundbite-driven media reports serve us poorly as we try to understand China's place in the current world order—or our own.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Vladimir Tismaneanu Introduction Part One: Adventures in China-Watching 1. Burgers, Beepers, and Bowling Alleys 2. Mr. Mao Ringtones 3. All the Coffee in China 4. The Generalissimo Would Not be Amused Part Two: The Inscrutable West 5. Searching the Stars for Emily Hahn 6. Traveling with Twain 7. Around the World with Grant and Li 8. The Time Machine of Tippecanoe County Part Three: Turn-of-the-Century Flashbacks 9. Mixed Emotions: China in 1999 10. Karl Gets a New Cap: Budapest in 2000 11. Patriotism in Public Life: The United States in 2001 12. A San Francisco of the East: Hong Kong in 2002 Part Four: The Tomorrowland Diaries 13. China's Brave New World 14. Chicago in an Age of Illusions 15. Why Go Anywhere? 16. Faster than a Speeding Bullet Train Afterword: Rhymes for Our Times Notes Acknowledgments Bibliography of Works Discussed Index

About the Author :
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His books include Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai. He lives in Irvine, California.

Review :
"This book provides a powerful lens for outsiders to understand a globalizing China and a unique mirror for the Chinese to reflect on their own society in a global context." Yunxiang Yan, author of Private Life Under Socialism


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780253219084
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 390 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0253219086
  • Publisher Date: 22 May 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Sub Title: And Other Tales for Global Times
  • Width: 156 mm


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