Insecure Times
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780415170932
First sentence: Popular commentators seeking to define the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times, often rely on the familiar Chinese saying, 'may you live in interesting times' (which lamented those who had the misfortune of living in such an era) to describe the perils of the contemporary moment.