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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'...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2007.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a China's Brave New World : |b --And Other Tales for Global Times / |c Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ; foreword by Vladimir Tismaneanu. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Foreword: beyond Marx, Lenin, and Mao / Vladimir Tismaneanu -- Introduction -- Part 1. Adventures in China-watching -- Burgers, beepers, and bowling alleys -- Mr. Mao ringtones -- All the coffee in China -- The generalissimo would not be amused -- Part 2. The inscrutable West -- Searching the stars for Emily Hahn -- Traveling with Twain -- Around the world with Grant and Li -- The time machine of Tippecanoe County -- Part 3. Turn-of-the-century flashbacks -- Mixed emotions: China in 1999 -- Karl gets a new cap: Budapest in 2000 -- Patriotism in public life: the United States in 2001 -- A San Francisco of the East: Hong Kong in 2002 -- Part 4. The tomorrowland diaries -- China's brave new world -- Chicago in an age of illusions -- Why go anywhere? -- Faster than a speeding bullet train -- Afterword: rhymes for our times. | |
| 520 | |a 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 | ||
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