Culture America Against America english translation and Let's Read by Kangxi on SomethingAwful

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You may be familiar with Wang Huning and his popular-among-CCP-leadership work America against America, never officially released in english translation. Fortunately for us, we've got an unofficial translation on libgen and commentary thanks to, of all places, SomethingAwful, available here.
Preface
Chapter 1, Part 1- Doubt, Made in America
Chapter 1, Part 2 - Manhattan and Chinatown
Chapter 1, Part 3 - The Four Cs
Chapter 1, Part 4 - The Heights of Commodification
Chapter 1, Part 5 - Frontiers
Chapter 1, Part 6 - The Amana Colonies
Chapter 1, Part 7 - Native Landscapes
Chapter 1, Part 8: The Decline of the Farm

Chapter 2: An Ancient Political Spirit
Chapter 2, Part 1 - The American Mind
Chapter 2, Part 2 - The Mayflower
Chapter 2, Part 3 - A Political Creed
Chapter 2, Part 4 - Equality or Freedom?
Chapter 2, Part 5 - A Constitution's Bicentennial
Chapter 2, Part 6 - Political Genes
Chapter 2, Part 7 - Political Standards
Chapter 2, Part 8 - "The Third Republic"

Chapter 3: A Colorful National Character
Chapter 3, Part 1 - International People
Chapter 3, Part 2 - Making a Show of Being Original
Chapter 3, Part 3 - Demystification
Chapter 3, Part 4 - Sacralization
Chapter 3, Part 5 - A Misleading Space Shuttle
Chapter 3, Part 6 - The "Work Ethic"
Chapter 3, Part 7 - Sexual Liberation (by chezhead)
Chapter 3, Part 8 - Lonely Spirits
Chapter 3, Part 9 - Future World
Chapter 3, Part 10 - People are always People

Chapter 4: Multileveled Societal Control
Chapter 4, Part 1: The Invisible Hand
Chapter 4, Part 2: Money-Managed Society
Chapter 4, Part 3: Human Standardization
Chapter 4, Part 4: Legal Culture
Chapter 4, Part 5: Taxation System
Chapter 4, Part 6: Scientific Administrators
Chapter 4, Part 7: Cats and Dogs are not Free

Chapter 5: Interwoven Political Power
Chapter 5, Part 1: Rule of Donkey and Elephant
Chapter 5, Part 2: Parties Share the Spoils
Chapter 5, Part 3: Interest Groups
Chapter 5, Part 4: Lobbyists
Chapter 5, Part 5: Radical Organizations
Chapter 5, Part 6: Pluralism or Meritocracy?
Chapter 5, Part 7: Participative Democracy

Chapter 6: Incomplete Elections
Chapter 6, Part 1: Battle for the White House
Chapter 6, Part 2: Road to the Presidency
Chapter 6, Part 3: A Tri-County Democratic Party Luncheon
Chapter 6, Part 4: TV Debate
Chapter 6, Part 5: A Representative's Dream
Chapter 6, Part 6: Election Day
Chapter 6, Part 7: Who rises and falls?

Chapter 7: Political Pyramid
Chapter 7, Part 1: Capitol Hill
Chapter 7, Part 2: Fifty States
Chapter 7, Part 3: County Politics
Chapter 7, Part 4: Politics in the Cities
Chapter 7, Part 5: Grassroots Politics
Chapter 7, Part 6: Transparency
Chapter 7, Part 7: Selection of Officials
Chapter 7, Part 8: Contacting Representatives

Chapter 8: Soft Governance
Chapter 8, Part 1: Drivers Licenses
Chapter 8, Part 2: Factory Principles
Chapter 8, Part 3: A Company is Not a Democracy
Chapter 8, Part 4: Human Services
Chapter 8, Part 5: Coca-Cola Headquarters
Chapter 8, Part 6: God on Earth

Chapter 9: Reproducing the System
Chapter 9, Part 1: The Educational System
Chapter 9, Part 2: MIT
Chapter 9, Part 3: The Kennedy School of Government
Chapter 9, Part 4: Talent Factories
Chapter 9, Part 5: The US Naval Academy
Chapter 9, Part 6: Educational Exports
Chapter 9, Part 7: A Furnace of Technology

Chapter 10: Active Intelligence
Chapter 10, Part 1: 'Knowledge Factories'
Chapter 10, Part 2: The Brookings Institute
Chapter 10, Part 3: The Carter Center
Chapter 10, Part 4: The Secretary of Defense's Talk
Chapter 10, Part 5: Regional Affairs Centers
Chapter 10, Part 6: Think Tanks
Chapter 10, Part 7: City Libraries

Chapter 11: Hidden Crises
Chapter 11, Part 1: Family Values
Chapter 11, Part 2: An Ignorant Generation?
Chapter 11, Part 3: Wandering Youths
Chapter 11, Part 4: America has its own Poisons
Chapter 11, Part 5: Criminal Underworld
Chapter 11, Part 6: A Beggar Nation
Chapter 11, Part 7: Black Crisis (by chezhead)
Chapter 11, Part 8: The Natives' Situation
Chapter 11, Part 9: A Mental Crisis
Chapter 11, Part 10: Empire of the Sun
 

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