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Age of Ambition

Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China

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Age of Ambition

Written by: Evan Osnos
Narrated by: Evan Osnos, George Backman
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Winner of the National Book Award 2014

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.

©2014 Evan Osnos (P)2015 Audible, Ltd Asia Politics & Government World
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Critic Reviews

"The rise of China is the biggest story of the past 25 years. Evan Osnos captures the country in all its striving, thunderous diversity, through a narrative that moves, provokes and makes us laugh. Age of Ambition is a marvel of great reporting, careful thinking, and powerful writing." (Dexter Filkins)
"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)
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Osnos hasn’t wasted words in telling his stories. His interesting writing style sets both perspective and context.

Very enjoyable

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This book has so many stories about China that it gives an insight on every part of China and makes you look at it in depth.

Overall, it's a an amazing book to listen to. Has do many interesting stories.

The narration was SO good!

There is nothing bad about this book.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Great book!

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