![]() ![]() who writes about politics and foreign affairs. He is a correspondent in Washington, D.C. And why does a government that has lifted more people from poverty than any other so strictly restrain freedom of expression?īased on years of research, Age of Ambition is a stunning narrative that reveals China as we have never understood it before.Įvan Osnos joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. 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. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'.Īge 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. ![]() A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China.Ī barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. ![]()
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