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Age of ambition : chasing fortune, truth, and faith in the new China / Evan Osnos.
"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. In Age of Ambition, he 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. A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780374280741
- ISBN: 0374280746
- Physical Description: x, 403 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-384) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Fortune. Unfettered ; The call ; Baptized in civilization ; Appetites of the mind ; No longer a slave ; Cutthroat ; Acquired taste -- Truth. Dancing in shackles ; Liberty leading the people ; Miracles and magic engines ; A chorus of soloists ; The art of resistance ; Seven sentences ; The germ in the henhouse ; Sandstorm ; Lightning storm ; All that glitters ; The hard truth -- Faith. The spiritual void ; Passing by ; Soulcraft ; Culture wars ; True believers ; Breaking out. |
| Awards Note: | National book award winner, 2014. |
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| Subject: | China > Civilization > 2002- China > Social conditions > 2000- China > Politics and government > 21st century. Social change > China. Economic development > China. Individualism > China. Authoritarianism > China. |
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"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. In Age of Ambition, he 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. A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation"--
