Age of Ambition
Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China
by Evan Osnos
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Pub Date Jun 26 2014 | Archive Date Jul 17 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Bodley Head
Description
A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China.
A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau.
The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the ‘Wastepaper Queen’.
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.
Together they describe the defining clash taking place today: between
the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control.
Here
is a China infused with a sense of boundless possibility and teeming
romance. Yet it is also riven by contradictions. It is the world’s
largest buyer of Rolls Royces and Ferraris yet the word ‘luxury’ is
banned from billboards. It has more Christians than members of the
Communist Party. 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.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition – available to read in UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada
Advance Praise
‘If you have time to read only one book about China today, read this one. Woven from vignettes of Chinese life at many different levels, it provides unerring insights into what makes the Chinese the people they are while wearing its learning so lightly that the narrative never flags. It should be in every tourist’s baggage and every diplomat’s library’
- Philip Short, author of Mao: A Life
'Evan Osnos is one of the most astute observers of contemporary China, and in this book he gives us a powerful and moving portrait of that country as it moves into the next decade. Using crisp and brilliant prose, Osnos uses some of the figures at the cutting edge of a changing China - artists, bloggers, religious leaders, and workers - to show us the strengths and weaknesses of this fast-changing and deeply important nation. This is a must-read book for those who want to understand China today - and where it is going.'
- Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford
'Compelling and accessible' - Washington Post Sunday
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781448190607 |
| PRICE | £20.00 (GBP) |
