China's Brave New World / Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology (ePub)
And Other Tales for Global Times
(Sprache: Englisch)
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,...
If Chairman Mao came back to life today,...
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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
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
Autoren-Porträt von Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Jeffrey N. WasserstromForeword by Vladimir Tismaneanu
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- Autor: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
- 2020, 237 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- ISBN-10: 0253027764
- ISBN-13: 9780253027764
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.03.2020
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