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Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
One of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year - One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2025 - A Financial Times Best Book of the Year - An August 2025 Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book - One of Bookbub's Best Nonfiction of 2025 - A China Books Review Best Book of 2025 - An Inc. Best Business Book of 2025
A riveting, firsthand investigation of China's seismic progress, its human costs, and what it means for America.
Brief description: Dan Wang is a research fellow at the Hoover History Lab at Stanford University. He was previously a fellow at the Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center and the technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics. Dan is the author of an annual letter from China and has published essays in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, New York Magazine, and The Atlantic.
Review Quotes: Dan Wang is able to illuminate China like no one else, and his annual letters have long been mandatory reading in Silicon Valley. Breakneck expands this analysis and delivers a simultaneously riveting and revelatory account of one of the most important topics of our time.--Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe