{"product_id":"chinas-brave-new-world-and-other-tales-for-global-times-0253219086","title":"China's Brave New World: And Other Tales for Global Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0253219086\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51699938918688,"sku":"NEW0253219086","price":27.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81nOZkXxVML.jpg?v=1779385887","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/chinas-brave-new-world-and-other-tales-for-global-times-0253219086","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}