Evan Osnos

Age of Ambition

Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 696365
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9780099589976
• ISBN-10: 0099589974
• Artikelnr.: 42296383

Autorenporträt

Evan Osnos

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Prologue
Part I: Fortune
1. Unfettered
2. The Call
3. Baptized in Civilization
4. Appetites of the Mind
5. No Longer a Slave
6. Cutthroat
7. Acquired Taste
Part II: Truth
8. Dancing in Shackles
9. Liberty Leading the People
10. Miracles and Magic Engines
11. A Chorus of Soloists
12. The Art of Resistance
13. Seven Sentences
14. The Germ in the Henhouse
15. Sandstorm
16. Lightning Storm
17. All That Glitters
18. The Hard Truth
Part III: Faith
19. The Spiritual Void
20. Passing By
21. Soulcraft
22. Culture Wars
23. True Believers
24. Breaking Out
Epilogue
Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index

Rezensionen

The rise of China is the biggest story of the past twenty-five 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