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          Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China

          Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China

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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.

          *WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2014*

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          Product ID:9780099589976
          Product Form:Paperback / softback
          Country of Manufacture:GB
          Title:Age of Ambition
          Subtitle:Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China
          Authors:Author: Evan Osnos
          Page Count:416
          Subjects:Politics and government, Politics & government, China
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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.

          *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.


          Imprint Name:Vintage
          Publisher Name:Vintage Publishing
          Country of Publication:GB
          Publishing Date:2015-05-07

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          Weight292 g
          Dimensions132 × 197 × 30 mm