Age of Ambition
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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 dramatically changes.
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 poverty than any civilization in history choose to put strict restraints on freedom of expression? Why do millions of young Chinese professionals-fluent in English and devoted to Western pop culture-consider themselves "angry youth," dedicated to resisting the West's influence? How are Chinese from all strata finding meaning after two decades of the relentless pursuit of wealth?
Writing with great narrative verve and a keen sense of irony, Osnos follows the moving stories of everyday people and reveals life in the new China to be a battleground between aspiration and authoritarianism, in which only one can prevail.
작가정보
저자(글) Osnos, Evan
Evan Osnos is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as the China correspondent from 2008 to 2013. Previously, he worked at the Chicago Tribune, where he was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2008. He is the author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China. He lives in Washington, D.C.
목차
- 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
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ONE
UNFETTERED
May 16, 1979
Under a sliver of moon, on an island off the coast of China, a twenty-six-year-old army captain slipped away from his post and headed for the water's edge. He moved as calmly as possible, over the pine scrub to a ledge overlooking the shore. If his plan were discovered, he would be disgraced and executed.
Capt. Lin Zhengyi was a model soldier, one of the most celebrated young officers in the army of Taiwan, the island province ruled by opponents of the Chinese Communist Party. For three decades Taiwan had defied Communist control, and Captain Lin was a symbol of that resistance: in college, he had been a star student who'd given up a placid civilian life to join the military, a decision so rare that Taiwan's future president made a point to shake his hand, and the picture was splashed all over the newspapers, turning Lin into a poster boy for the "Holy Counterattack," the dream of retaking mainland China.
Lin Zhengyi (pronounced "Jung-yee") stood nearly six feet tall, with ramrod posture, a broad, flat nose, and jug ears that protruded from the rim of his hat. His devotion had earned him the assignment to the most sensitive place on the front line: the tiny island of Quemoy, known in Mandarin as Jinmen, barely one mile, across the water, from the rocky coast of mainland China.
But Captain Lin had a secret so dangerous to him and his family that he did not dare reveal it even to his wife, who was home with their son and pregnant with their second child. Captain Lin had awoken to a sense of history gathering around him. After thirty years of turmoil, China was appealing to the people of Taiwan to reunify the "great Motherland." Any soldier who tried to defect to the mainland would be shot on sight. The few who tried were exceedingly rare, though the consequences were vivid; the most recent case had occurred less than a month ago. But Lin had heard his calling. China would prosper again, he believed. And he would prosper with it.
In the darkness he found the sandy path that could lead him safely down a hill laden with land mines. The wind off the sea had bent the gnarled island pines. The water, a brilliant crystal green by day, was now an endless black mass, surging and withdrawing with the waves. To ward off an invasion, the beaches had been fitted with long metal spears that protruded from the sand to face the sea.
Just before the captain left the tree line for the dash to shore, he loosened the laces of his shoes and stepped barefoot onto the soil and stone. He was ready to abandon his fellow soldiers, his family, and his name.
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Praise for Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
“In the pages of the New Yorker, Evan Osnos has portrayed, explained and poked fun at this new China better than any other writer from the West or the East. In Age of Ambition, Osnos takes his reporting a step further, illuminating what he calls China's Gilded Age, its appetites, challenges and dilemmas, in a way few have done.” -John Pomfret, Washington Post
“Age of Ambition is… a riveting and troubling portrait of a people in a state of extreme anxiety about their identity, values and future, [and] a China rived by moral crisis and explosive frustration.” -Judith Shapiro, New York Times
“For those new to China, Mr Osnos beautifully portrays the nation in all its craziness, providing a ringside seat for the greatest show on earth.” -The Economist
“Beautifully written ... an absolute must-read.” -Edward Steinfeld, Harvard Magazine
“China's Gilded Age has been every bit as fascinating, colorful and tragic as our own -- and [Osnos] offers an engrossing account of it… [He] understands the depths of the transformations, the complexity of the contradictions, and the fragility of the overall enterprise.” -Chicago Tribune
“Evan Osnos ... has put his keen insight and intrepid research skills to use in his exploration of the internal intellectual and spiritual infrastructure of China's rise.” -Dan Blumenthal, The National Interest
“[Osnos] adeptly chronicles… China's 35-year journey from poverty and collective dogmatism to a dynamic if cut-throat era of competition, self-promotion and materialism.” -Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times
“Age of Ambition [is] eloquent and comprehensive…” -Jonathan Mirsky, New York Times Book Review
“Age of Ambition is a splendid and entertaining picture of 21st-century China…” -Michael Fathers, Wall Street Journal
기본정보
ISBN | 9780374535278 ( 0374535272 ) |
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발행(출시)일자 | 2015년 05월 19일 |
쪽수 | 416쪽 |
크기 |
140 * 210
* 34
mm
/ 454 g
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총권수 | 1권 |
언어 | 영어 |
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