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China's Brave New World
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The author of Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink delivers "a must-read for anyone interested in the world's most rapidly changing society" (James L. Watson, editor of Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia).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 poss…

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The author of Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink delivers "a must-read for anyone interested in the world's most rapidly changing society" (James L. Watson, editor of Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia).

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.

"Rather effortlessly brilliant . . . It penetrates with a lightly knowing eye and ear into the interior mind, heart and soul of giant China and the innumerable Chinese."--AsiaMedia

"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
"Readers will find themselves far more observant and attentive to local distinctions when they take their first or next trip to China."--Stanley Rosen, The China Journal No. 60
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The author of Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink delivers "a must-read for anyone interested in the world's most rapidly changing society" (James L. Watson, editor of Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia).

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.

"Rather effortlessly brilliant . . . It penetrates with a lightly knowing eye and ear into the interior mind, heart and soul of giant China and the innumerable Chinese."--AsiaMedia

"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
"Readers will find themselves far more observant and attentive to local distinctions when they take their first or next trip to China."--Stanley Rosen, The China Journal No. 60

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