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This Generation: Dispatches from China's Most Popular Literary Star (and Race Car Driver)
This Generation Dispatches from China's Most Popular Literary Star - and Race Car Driver Author:Han Han ?The enfant terrible of Chinese letters? (The Daily Beast/Newsweek).In China, Han Han is as controversial as they come?an irreverent singer, rally driver, and satirist whose brilliant blogs and books have made him a celebrity. Evan Osnos writes in The New Yorker, ?Han?s manicured, swaggering persona is a rebuke to the rumpled archetype of the Ch... more »inese intellectual and owes equal debt to Jack Kerouac and Justin Timberlake.? Now, Han Han takes readers on a fascinating trip through Chinese culture.
This Generation is a compilation of essays and blog posts that tells the story of modern China from Han Han?s unique perspective. Writing on topics as diverse as racing, whoring, the Beijing Olympics, and how to be a patriot, he offers a funny and illuminating trip through a complex nation that most Westerners view as marching in lockstep. An entertaining and invaluable way for Americans to understand our rising Eastern partner and rival, This Generation introduces a dazzling talent who will long be remembered as a millennial time capsule.« less
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