Book · 2014 · Nonfiction

Age of Ambition

Name: Age of Ambition
Author: Evan Osnos

Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux (Macmillan) · 403 pages

★ 4.8 editorial score

Osnos spent eight years watching China chase fortune faster than its politics allowed, and tells it through a soldier who swam the strait to defect and a blind lawyer who escaped house arrest.

Genre

Reporting

Subject

Social upheaval China International affairs

Setting

China

Time

2014Depicts 2010s

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“As your ambassador can see for himself we possess all things. I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country's manufactures.”

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