Pleasure of Thinking

Pleasure of ThinkingA yet untranslated essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s. Wang Xiaobos 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 todays politico

His study follows important articulations of the figure and how it has shifted based on historical and cultural contexts

empire and colonialism

North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons

It is a call for social action and transformation that should not be ignored by researchers

Until a body is found

Cross declares

Originally exhibited in Cairo in 2000

a sentiment that has only endeared him further to subsequent generations of Americans

Yet as Christopher Lehman shows in this revealing study

and he proceeded to create one of the largest European empires since the collapse of Rome

Africa (1959)

Each chapter probes individual and collective responses to these intercultural points of contact