China's Brave New World
And Other Tales for Global Times
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 ar…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-253-21908-4
- EAN: 9780253219084
- Produktnummer: 2615012
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 236 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.2 cm 365 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 365
Über den Autor
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.
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