Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Jan 2026 on The Ezra Klein Show.
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Adam Tooze👍 Recommends
…book recommendations for understanding modern chinese history and society
“So my first is a Chinese classic. Not an ancient classic, but a modern classic. Arguably the first modern Chinese novella, Lucian's Diary of a Madman, which is the most extraordinary kind of first-person account of the delirium of a person waking up into a world where they begin to convince themselves that it is a world of cannibalism. And it's a complex metaphor about Chinese society in the early 20th century.”
The Ezra Klein Show — How the World Sees America, With Adam Toozeat 1:01:01
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