📚 5 Books mentioned in "Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao | Lex Fridman Podcast #466" of Lex Fridman Podcast

You can buy "1984" in a Chinese bookstore, you've been able to since 1985.

Speaker mentions that the book "1984" is available for purchase in Chinese bookstores.

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And then there's "Animal Farm in 1984" is a second book.

Speaker mentions "Animal Farm" as part of a "Dystopian Trilogy" set available in China.

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I think about that a lot of recently reread, over the past couple of years we read "Brave New World" a couple of times, and also "1984".

Lex Fridman mentions rereading "Brave New World" recently.

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there's a clarity to Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale," similarly the construction of the elements.

Speaker mentions Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" as having clarity similar to "1984".

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You can read all sorts of things in China about totalitarian, you can read Hannah Arendt's book on totalitarianism, which would be the kind of thing you just, you know, you're not supposed to be able to read that in a somewhat totalitarian state or a dictatorial state, or anything.

Speaker mentions that Hannah Arendt's book on totalitarianism is available in Chinese bookstores.

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