Age of Ambition

Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalistWinner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfictionAn Economist Best Book of 2014Winner of the bronze medal for the Council on Foreign Relations 2015 Arthur Ross Book AwardA vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationFrom 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 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 He asks probing questions Why does a government with 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. New Download Age of Ambition [ by ] Evan Osnos [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr This book,so than any other I ve read on China, best captures the country s current situation, challenges and contradictions Osnos did a good job of weaving together the characters and themes that he explores built around the triad of fortune, truth and faith capturing the way that prosperity and development co exist with political dissent and ...Disappointed Except the chapter of the writer s riding along with a group of Chinese for a guided tour in Europe which is fresh and insightful , the rest stories are either unoriginal or plainly wrong like the story about Han Han In comparison, Peter Hessler s River Town and Oracle Bo...Shenzhen landslide, December 2015Tianjin explosion, August 2015Oriental Star Cruise Ship Disaster, June 2015There are a lot of China books out there As China is a constantly changing country, I m sometimes frustrated by how quickly outdated books become However, if I had to recommend one book to a person, who is interested to learn about contemporary China, I think Osnos Age of Ambition is the per...I don t think anyone could argue that Evan Osnos wasn t ambitious in this, his National Book Award winning compendium of current Chinese political culture Subtitled Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China, this book extends and expands essays he d already published in The New Yorker magazine and gives outsiders a glimpse into the confusion and mad, exciting reality that is China today.Osnos covers a lot of ground and at the risk of appearing to be a ping pong ball in the hands of a gi I don t think anyone could argue that Evan Osnos wasn t ambitious in this, his National Book Award winning compendium of current Chinese political culture Subtitled...Age of Ambition won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2014, and no wonder Nothing I ve read about the rise of China for many years has immersed me so deeply into the texture of life in that country ormemorably portrayed its yawning contradictions.Twenty years ago, the extraordinary husband and wife reporting team of Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn published China Wakes The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power Based on five years of work in China they won the Pulitzer for Age of Ambition won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2014, and no wonder Nothing I ve read about the rise of China for many years has immersed me so deeply into the texture of life in that country ormemorably portrayed its yawning contradictions.Twenty years ago, the extraordinary husband and wife reporting team of Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn published China Wakes The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power Based on five years of work in Chi...Evan Osnos s Age of Ambition is packed with detailed observations and curious facts that will edify anyone looking to learn about modern China s domestic structure and growing role on the international stage Osnos is a talented writer whose style can be described as humanist nonfiction a series of interview based narratives organized by theme and supported by ancillary research It reminds of me George Packer s exceptional book The Unwinding An Inner History of the New America, which is hav Evan Osnos s Age of Ambition is packed with detailed observations and curious facts that will edify anyone looking to learn about modern China s domestic structure and growing role on the international stage Osnos is a talented writer whose style can be described as humanist nonfiction a series of interview based narratives organized by theme and supported by ancillary research It remin...This is the best book I ve read so far on China It helps you understand the odd dichotomy of big government and free market capitalism that exists there Something that the vast majority of westerns including myself fail to really understand That is not a simple topic to summarize but the author presented it not as a rigid historical background but as a mix of stories, biographies, of real fascinating people in China Combining many of the articles the author has written for the New Yorker This is the best book I ve read so far on China It h...An interesting look at contemporary China by a journalist who has spent over a decade living there Documents the cultural changes of a country in great flux, and tells the story of national changes through individual narratives I was especially taken with the stories of educated young Chinese nationalists, reviving traditional Eastern thought and insisting on a unique place for China in the world aloof from blind Westernization This was interesting in the suggestion that Third Worldism is s An interesting look at contemporary China by a journalist who has spent over a decade living there Documents the cultural changes of a country in great flux, and tells the story of national changes through individual narratives I was especially taken with the stories of educated young Chinese nationalists, reviving traditional Eastern thought and insisting on a unique place for China in the world aloof from blind Westernization This was interesting in the suggestion that Third Worldism is still an animating force for many Chinese behind the market driven consumerism projected to the outside world.One of my favourite subjects is the upheaval of China s Cultural Revolution during Mao s time, and while this is very much a book about the present moment those events still reverberate Chinese history and culture was mostly wiped clean, a...The last ten years of China is told by mostly telling the stories through second person accounts of people the author has interviewed He tells the story with three different perspectives at play, China s phenomena growth, the corruption and intimidation the government uses, and the third perspective of what the author refers to as faith, by that he means a belief in tradition and a distrust in the system working fairly for the individual.At first, I thought th...

• English
• 01 November 2018
Evan Osnos
• Hardcover
• 403 pages
• 0374280746
• Evan Osnos
• Age of Ambition