Dan Wang

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As the defining conflict of the twenty-first century approaches, Breakneck offers a riveting, firsthand investigation of China's seismic progressand what it means for America.

Technology analyst Dan Wangan indispensable voice on China (Evan Osnos) for close to a decadehas been living through the country's astonishing, messy progress. In this time, building big has fueled China's economic ascent. But social engineering has led to unbearable costs, including the traumas of zero-COVID and the cruel legacies of the one-child policy. In Breakneck, Wang traverses dazzling metropolises and factory complexes, blending political, economic, and philosophical analysis with reportage to reveal how the Communist Party's darkening ambitions have shaken its people.

Wang unveils a new framework for understanding China, one that sheds new light on its competition with America. While China is an engineering state, relentlessly pursuing megaprojects, the US has stalled. America has transformed into a lawyerly society, reflexively blocking everything, good and bad. As Breakneck reveals, only by understanding the remarkable strengths and the appalling weaknesses of the engineering state can America reignite its sense of restless ambition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324106043
• Artikelnr.: 73265573

Autorenporträt

Dan Wang is a research scholar at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center and one of the most cited experts on China and technology. His essays have been published in the New York Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, New York magazine, and the Atlantic.