#466 - Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #466:

  1. Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall by Margaret E. Roberts
  2. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
  3. 1984 by George Orwell
  4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  6. Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
  7. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  8. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  9. Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy by Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin
  10. The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
  11. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  12. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil
  13. The Xi Jinping Effect by Ashley Esarey, Rongbin Han
  14. Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China by Emily Feng
  15. No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by Rebecca Solnit

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is an American historian and sinologist who is the Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Wikipedia


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