{"product_id":"chinas-brave-new-world","title":"China's Brave New World","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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 (IPS)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52691309068655,"sku":"9780253219084","price":176.84,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0253219086.jpg?v=1771535439","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/chinas-brave-new-world","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}