A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“I much prefer Anna Karenina to War and Peace. I prefer Buddenbrooks to Magic Mountain. And here again, you oppose me. What's the deal?”
Why: It is described as a remarkably Confucian novel focused on family virtues.
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Other books cited in the same episodes.
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Discussed together in: Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other (Conversations with Tyler)
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Discussed together in: Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other (Conversations with Tyler)
Red and the Black
Horace Barnet Samuel
Discussed together in: Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other (Conversations with Tyler)
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
Discussed together in: Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other (Conversations with Tyler)
The Art of Not Being Governed
James C. Scott
Discussed together in: Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other (Conversations with Tyler)