Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

Dan Wang

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2025

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For close to a decade, technology analyst Dan Wang??a gifted observer of contemporary China? (Ross Douthat)?has been living through the country?s astonishing, messy progress. China?s towering bridges, gleaming railways, and sprawling factories have improved economic outcomes in record time. But rapid change has also sent ripples of pain throughout the society. This reality?political repression and astonishing growth?is not a paradox, but rather a feature of China?s engineering mindset. In Breakneck, Wang blends political, economic, and philosophical analysis with reportage to reveal a provocative new framework for understanding China?one that helps us see America more clearly, too. While China is an engineering state, relentlessly pursuing megaprojects, the United States has stalled. America has transformed into a lawyerly society, reflexively blocking everything, good and bad Blending razor-sharp analysis with immersive storytelling, Wang offers a gripping portrait of a nation in flux. Breakneck traverses metropolises like Shanghai, Chongqing, and Shenzhen, where the engineering state has created not only dazzling infrastructure but also a sense of optimism. The book also exposes the downsides of social engineering, including the surveillance of ethnic minorities, political suppression, and the traumas of the one-child policy and zero-Covid. In an era of animosity and mistrust, Wang unmasks the shocking similarities between the United States and China. Breakneck reveals how each country points toward a better path for the other: Chinese citizens would be better off if their government could learn to value individual liberties, while Americans would be better off if their government could learn to embrace engineering?and to produce better outcomes for the many, not just the few.…

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Titel
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Autor
Dan Wang
Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsjahr
2025
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Englisch
ISBN-10
1324106034
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9781324106036

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