Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
(Sprache: Englisch)
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction
An Economist Best Book of 2014
Winner of the bronze medal for the Council on Foreign Relations' 2015 ...
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction
An Economist Best Book of 2014
Winner of the bronze medal for the Council on Foreign Relations' 2015 ...
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Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalistWinner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction
An Economist Best Book of 2014
Winner of the bronze medal for the Council on Foreign Relations' 2015 Arthur Ross Book Award
A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation
As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval.
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.
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CONTENTSPrologue
Part I: Fortune
1. Unfettered
2. The Call
3. Baptized in Civilization
4. Appetites of the Mind
5. No Longer a Slave
6. Cutthroat
7. Acquired Taste
Part II: Truth
8. Dancing in Shackles
9. Liberty Leading the People
10. Miracles and Magic Engines
11. A Chorus of Soloists
12. The Art of Resistance
13. Seven Sentences
14. The Germ in the Henhouse
15. Sandstorm
16. Lightning Storm
17. All That Glitters
18. The Hard Truth
Part III: Faith
19. The Spiritual Void
20. Passing By
21. Soulcraft
22. Culture Wars
23. True Believers
24. Breaking Out
Epilogue
Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index
Autoren-Porträt von Evan Osnos
Evan Osnos
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Evan Osnos
- 416 Seiten, Maße: 14,1 x 20,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX
- ISBN-10: 0374535272
- ISBN-13: 9780374535278
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.05.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
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