Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfictionAn Economist Best Book of 2014 Winner of the bronze medal for the Council on Foreign Relations' 2015 Arthur Ross Book Award 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.
Evan Osnos is a senior scholar for the Brookings Institution and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is also a CNN contributor. He is a political and foreign affairs writer based in Washington, D.C. From 2008 to 2013, he was The New Yorker's China Correspondent. His debut book, Age of Ambition: Pursuing Wealth, Truth, and Faith in the New China, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received the National Book Award in 2014. In 2020, he released Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now, an international bestseller based on interviews with Biden, Barack Obama, and others.
Prior to joining The New Yorker, Osnos was the Chicago Tribune's Beijing bureau chief, where he contributed to a series that earned the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2008. Prior to his position in China, he worked in the Middle East, especially in Iraq, reporting. Sarabeth Berman, his wife, and he have two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374535278 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374535272 |
| Title | Age of Ambition |
| Author | Evan Osnos |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Year published | 2015-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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