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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Narrative Nonfiction / China
Osnos spent eight years as The New Yorker's Beijing bureau chief reporting on the generation of Chinese citizens who came of age during the country's economic transformation. He profiles activists, entrepreneurs, soldiers, and artists navigating a society where aspiration outpaced institutions. Collison flagged it as particularly great; it is one of the sharpest accounts of rapid modernization and its social costs.
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Patrick Collison
Flagged green (particularly great); ground-level account of rapid economic development and its social consequences, a lens Collison applies to thinking about progress.