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Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2014
On Sale: May 13, 2014
420 pages
ISBN: 0374280746
EAN: 9780374280741
Kindle: B00GET185M
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China
during a moment of profound transformation From 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 more 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.
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