silent majority. pleasure of thinking -- The Maverick pig -- War in the belly -- Thinking and feeling ashamed -- Letter to a new year (1996) -- Concerning "The greatness tribe" -- Interrogating sociology -- What kind of feminist am I? -- On the question of homosexuality -- Li Yinho's Sexuality and Marriage in China -- Li Yinho's Procreation and Chinese Village Culture -- Overcoming the puerile condition -- The feeling of domestic product and cultural relativism -- Letter to a new year (1997) -- Odd jobs -- Tales from abroad: Clothes -- Tales from abroad: Housing -- Tales from abroad: Travel -- Tales from abroad: Thieves -- Tales from abroad: Farm -- Tales from abroad: Chinese restaurants -- Why China doesn't make sci-fi films -- Movies, chives, old newspapers -- Beginning with the internet -- Visiting the home of an American leftist -- My approach to reeducating the youth -- Why I write -- Using Golden Age to talk about the art of fiction -- On writing style -- On the literature of repression -- Culture wars -- Italo Calvino and the next millennium -- The silent majority.
Summary:
"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."--Amazon.com.
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