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Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall
Margaret Roberts
“one of my favorite books”
“My favorite book about one of my favorite books about Chinese censorship, Margaret Roberts, where she talks about there are three different ways that the government can control the stories.”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China
Emily Feng
“a book I really like”
“there's a book I I really like um Emily Fang of NPR has a new book out called um let only red flowers bloom”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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The Milk Tea Alliance
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
“It's where I'm going to hold the launch for my next book um when it comes out in June. This book on the Milk Tea Alliance”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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1984
George Orwell
“You can buy 1984 in a Chinese bookstore. you've been able to since 1985.”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
“You've actually spoken about and described China as more akin to the dystopian world of Brave New World than 1984, which is really interesting”— Lex Fridman
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Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley
“Huxley did write something called Brave New World Revisited. Yes, he did. In the 50s and he kind of said actually it seems and he mentions China there.”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
“and then there's Animal Farm in 1984 is a second book and then the third volume is Huxley's Brave New World”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
“you have Ziaten's Wii who in that inspired both Orwell and Huxley to some extent. Uh that's one book”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
“There's a clarity to Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale. Similarly, the the the construction of the elements”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
“You can read Hannah Rant's uh book on totalitarianism, which would be the kind of thing you just, you know, you're not supposed to be able to read”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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Neuromancer
William Gibson
“William Gibson who wrote one of the other important dystopian novels of the present neurommancer he wrote a rare non for him non-fiction piece about Singapore”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
Rebecca Solnit
“Rebecca Snith, she's got a new book, No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain, and she's talking about taking a longer view of some struggles”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong
Shibani Mahtani
“Shabbani Matani, who's written um uh co-wrote a very good book on Hong Kong among the braves”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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The Xi Jinping Effect
Ling Li and Wen-Hsuan Tsai (inferred)
“One is called the Xiinping effect which was just a bunch of scholars an academic volume sort of looking at take this topic and that topic”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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Minority Report
Steven Spielberg (inferred)
“there it really is minority report. It's this kind of like you do certain kinds of behaviors and we're seeing this other places too.”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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