Evan Osnos

A Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker documents the political, economic and cultural changes occurring in today's China, examining a transition from Communist to personal power while addressing key questions about national freedom, generational identity and the influence of the West. 50,000 first printing.

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

Feyi Fawehinmi 

Fascinating look INSIDE China...the things you dont get to see from the outside by someone who lived there

*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2014* A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the ‘Wastepaper Queen’. Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that make up China’s story – one that unfolds on remote farms, in glittering mansions, and in the halls of power of the world’s largest authoritarian regime. Together they describe the defining clash taking place today: between the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control. Here is a China infused with a sense of boundless possibility and teeming romance. Yet it is also riven by contradictions. It is the world’s largest buyer of Rolls Royces and Ferraris yet the word ‘luxury’ is banned from billboards. It has more Christians than members of the Communist Party. And why does a government that has lifted more people from poverty than any other so strictly restrain freedom of expression? Based on years of research, Age of Ambition is a stunning narrative that reveals China as we have never understood it before.

Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China

Age of Ambition

Bouke van der Bijl

This is an interesting dive into the story of china, told through different people the author has interacted with and some famous people you've probably heard of (Ai Weiwei). The way the author brings together background information and the people he interviews is fantastic, he really 'weaves' a coherent story that way. 

I feel like I understand china a little bit more now

Brian

marc

Ben Jenkins

Ben Radford

Phil Halley

Elda Mengisto

Garrett Jansen

Katie Chua

*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2014* A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the âe~Wastepaper Queenâe(tm). Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that make up Chinaâe(tm)s story âe" one that unfolds on remote farms, in glittering mansions, and in the halls of power of the worldâe(tm)s largest authoritarian regime. Together they describe the defining clash taking place today: between the individual and the Communist Partyâe(tm)s struggle to retain control. Here is a China infused with a sense of boundless possibility and teeming romance. Yet it is also riven by contradictions. It is the worldâe(tm)s largest buyer of Rolls Royces and Ferraris yet the word âe~luxuryâe(tm) is banned from billboards. It has more Christians than members of the Communist Party. And why does a government that has lifted more people from poverty than any other so strictly restrain freedom of expression? Based on years of research, Age of Ambition is a stunning narrative that reveals China as we have never understood it before.

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

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