Lecture of Opportunity | Evan Osnos: China in the Age of Ambition
Channel: U.S. Naval War College
Date: 26/11/2014

Evan Osnos, "China in the Age of Ambition," Lecture of Opportunity, Nov. 20, 2014

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. 

Osnos is the 2014 winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction, for his book titled “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China.” 

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