What we don’t see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes.Īs 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.
Winner of the bronze medal for the Council on Foreign Relations’ 2015 Arthur Ross Book AwardĪ vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationįrom 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. Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction And why does a government that has lifted more people from poverty than any other so strictly restrain freedom of expression? Based on years of research, Age of Ambition is a stunning narrative that reveals China as we have never understood it before.Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist It has more Christians than members of the Communist Party. It is the world's largest buyer of Rolls Royces and Ferraris yet the word 'luxury' is banned from billboards. Here is a China infused with a sense of boundless possibility and teeming romance. Together they describe the defining clash taking place today: between the individual and the Communist Party's struggle to retain control. Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that make up China's story - one that unfolds on remote farms, in glittering mansions, and in the halls of power of the world's largest authoritarian regime. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China.
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