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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.

As China comes into its own as a world economic power, a new, huge consumer class is emerging, hungry for all things Western. In this land where 25 years ago most of the population had never tasted chocolate, five icons of Western business are now slugging it out in a battle royal to see which will become the Emperor of Chocolate in China.

"A Spaniard Selling Lottery Fortune" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Raphael Minder and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Orlando Shooting Survivors Note the Trauma of Good Fortune" is from the June 14, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Richard Pérez Peña and narrated by Kristi Burns.