{"product_id":"breakneck-chinas-quest-to-engineer-the-future-hardcover","title":"Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e*Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the\nYear*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFrom an indispensable voice on China comes a riveting, first-hand account of\nChina's seismic progress\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFor close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China’s tumultuous and\nastounding growth. The state has constructed towering bridges, gleaming\nrailways and sprawling factories to improve economic outcomes in record time.\nBut rapid change has also sent ripples of pain throughout society.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nChina has grown so quickly in part by beating America at its own game:\ncapitalism and harnessing the restless energy of a vast population. Here Wang\nblends political and economic analysis with reportage into a provocative new\nframework for understanding China – one that helps us see America more clearly,\ntoo. Whereas China is an engineering state, relentlessly building big, the\nUnited States has transformed into a lawyerly society, stalling every attempt\nto make change, both good and bad.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAs relations between the US and China are tense and uncertain and the potential\nfor dreadful conflict looms, Wang offers an inventive new way of thinking about\nthe two superpowers. \u003ci\u003eBreakneck \u003c\/i\u003ereveals that each country\npoints towards a better path for the other. How much better the world would be,\nhe argues, if Americans could live in a society not only governed by lawyers,\nand Chinese citizens could live with a state that values their individual\nliberties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Wang\u003c\/b\u003e is a research fellow at the Hoover\nHistory Lab at Stanford University. He was previously a fellow at the Yale Law\nSchool’s Paul Tsai China Center and the technology analyst at Gavekal\nDragonomics, working in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai. Dan is the author of\nan annual letter from China and has published essays in the \u003ci\u003eNew York\nTimes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew\nYork Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44681358672079,"sku":"9780241729175","price":56.68,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_4bd80e5d-850d-4de9-9b16-d394138cfcca.jpg?v=1772789729","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/breakneck-chinas-quest-to-engineer-the-future-hardcover","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}