I wanted very much to study the Western ##1##, because I knew nothing about it. Yes, McDonald’s ads and Madonna ##2## were plastered on Shanghai streets, ##3## few Western ideas filtered through. We had been ##4## of Karl Marx’s habit of sitting at the same ##5## in the British Library, for instance, but had read none of his ##6## words. Western civilization was different, and ##7## thus alluring. Besides, because I ##8## to be accepted here, I yearned to understand American society. What better way to ##9## it than to study the very ideas on which it is ##10##?