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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Autor principal: Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Civilisation > 1950-
Civilization, Modern > 1950-
China.
Chine > Civilisation > 2002-
Chine > Civilisation > 1976-2002.
China > Civilization > 2002-
China > Civilization > 1976-2002.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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