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Pleasure of Thinking: Essays

Pleasure of Thinking: Essays

Xiaobo, Wang
Yan, Yan

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ISBN10: 1662601255
ISBN13: 9781662601255
Publisher: Astra House
Published: Jul 25 2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
A yet-untranslated essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s.

Wang Xiaobo's Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and abroad, Xiaobo examines modern life with the levity missing from so much of today's politico-cultural discourse.

In The Maverick Pig, he considers the existential differences between humans and livestock. In Tales From Abroad: Food, he recounts the culture shock of discovering American diets while studying at Carnegie Mellon. Several pieces focus on literature, with notable essays devoted to Italo Calvino, Bertrand Russell, and Ernest Hemingway, whom Xiaobo admired greatly. Others are more personal in nature, ranging from a meditation on getting mugged, to the consideration of the question: why do I write?

Controversial, hilarious, and inimitable, Pleasure of Thinking is a delightful celebration of Wang Xiaobo's unique critical perspective.

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