{"product_id":"9780253219084","title":"China's Brave New World : And Other Tales for Global Times","description":"\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?\n\u003cbr\u003e 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":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49707374870776,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":47.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780253219084-1.jpg?v=1785368040","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/ja\/products\/9780253219084","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}