Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction
An Economist Best Book of 2014
Winner of the bronze medal for the Council on Foreign Relations?? 2015 Arthur Ross Book Award
A vibrant?? colorful?? and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation
From abroad?? we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy-or an addled Goliath?? riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don't see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatic"hanges.
As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker?? Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years?? witness to profound political?? economic?? and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition?? he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party's struggle to retain control. He asks probing questions: Why does a government with more success lifting people from pov