Age of Ambition

A journalist's multi-year immersion reporting on China's rapid economic and social transformation, told through the interwoven stories of a tech entrepreneur, a dissident, and a young woman's family — this is narrative nonfiction, not a single genre.

The book is a meditation on ambition, faith, and the cost of progress, so it reads as a meditation/reflective work rather than a thriller or a straight news report. Moods reflect the book's elegiac, hopeful, and tense tone as it tracks both triumph and tragedy across its subjects' lives.

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