Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
Winner of the National Book Award in nonfiction
Age of Ambition provides a vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation. From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy-or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don’t see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes. In Age of Ambition, Osnos describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control. He asks probing questions: Why does a government with more success lifting people from poverty than any civilization in history choose to put strict restraints on freedom of expression? Why do millions of young Chinese professionals-fluent in English and devoted to Western pop culture-consider themselves “angry youth,” dedicated to resisting the West’s influence? How are Chinese from all strata finding meaning after two decades of the relentless pursuit of wealth? Writing with great narrative verve and a keen sense of irony, Osnos follows the moving stories of everyday people and reveals life in the new China to be a battleground between aspiration and authoritarianism, in which only one can prevail. An Economist Best Book of the Year
Winner of the bronze medal for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Arthur Ross Book Award
Author: Evan Osnos
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/05/2015
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374535278
Language: English
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