LEADER 03992oam 22005054a 450 001 9910154713503321 005 20180817105040.0 010 $a9780253027764 010 $a0253027764 035 $a(CKB)4340000000022917 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4766618 035 $a(OCoLC)1016602377 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57694 035 $a(Perlego)2448421 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000022917 100 $a20061019d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aChina's Brave New World $e--And Other Tales for Global Times /$fJeffrey N. Wasserstrom ; foreword by Vladimir Tismaneanu 210 1$aBloomington, Indiana ;$aIndianapolis, Indiana :$cIndiana University Press,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (236 pages) 311 08$a9780253219084 311 08$a0253219086 311 08$a9780253348890 311 08$a0253348897 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [201]-203) and index. 327 $aForeword: 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. 330 8 $aThe 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. 60 606 $aCivilization, Modern$y1950- 607 $aChina$xCivilization$y2002- 607 $aChina$xCivilization$y1976-2002 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCivilization, Modern 676 $a951.06 700 $aWasserstrom$b Jeffrey N$0887950 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154713503321 996 $aChina's Brave New World$92871062 997 $aUNINA