Foreword: beyond Marx, Lenin, and Mao / Vladimir Tismaneanu
Introduction
Part 1. Adventures in China-watching
Burgers, beepers, and bowling alleys
Mr. Mao ringtones
All the coffee in China
The generalissimo would not be amused
Part 2. The inscrutable West
Searching the stars for Emily Hahn
Traveling with Twain
Around the world with Grant and Li
The time machine of Tippecanoe County
Part 3. Turn-of-the-century flashbacks
Mixed emotions: China in 1999
Karl gets a new cap: Budapest in 2000
Patriotism in public life: the United States in 2001
A San Francisco of the East: Hong Kong in 2002
Part 4. The tomorrowland diaries
China's brave new world
Chicago in an age of illusions
Why go anywhere?
Faster than a speeding bullet train
Afterword: rhymes for our times.
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