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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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 the Year
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A China Books Review Best Book of the Year
An Inc. Best Business Book of the Year
"The best recent book on China, on China and America, and, arguably, the best book of the year flat out." --Tyler Cowen
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: [A] brilliant book--equal parts gripping and depressing.--Tunku Varadarajan "Wall Street Journal"