| China's Brave New World: And Other Tales for Global Times Contributor(s): Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253219086 ISBN-13: 9780253219084 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: Provocative insights into China, travel, and technology in the 21st century |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Pragmatism - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy |
| Dewey: 951.06 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 7.04" W x 8.94" (0.79 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |