Huxley’s masterpiece, which had more to say about materialism, mood-control, mass-distraction, and social fragmentation than Orwell’s, offers a new kind of insight into what is really happening in twenty-first-century China. With its bliss-inducing drug “soma” and sensuous entertainments known as “feelies,” which provided the sort of engrossing distraction now offered by video games and iPods, Brave New World’s perspective adds a new dimension to understanding the durability of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a protean ruling party.
贺胥黎的名著比奥维尔的作品对唯物主义、精神控制、大众娱乐和社会分裂有更多的描述，提供了一个观察21世纪中国正在发生的变化的新视角。《美丽新世界》提供了一种诱导精神愉悦的药物“躯体”和名为“多感觉宣传媒介”的感官娱乐活动（与现在电子游戏和iPods所提供的引人入胜的娱乐活动相似），增加了一个新的视角和观察维度，从中可以理解中国共产党作为一个经常变化的执政党所拥有的持久生命力。