Name: Breakneck. China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Price: 994.00 TWD
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Author: Dan Wang
ISBN: 9780241729175

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Breakneck. China's Quest to Engineer the Future

Type

Physical Book

Author

Dan Wang

Publisher

Allen Lane

Year

2025

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

16 x 24 cm

ISBN13

9780241729175

Breakneck. China's Quest to Engineer the Future

Dan Wang (Author) · Allen Lane · Hardcover

New Book Imported to Taiwan

Delivery: 16 Jul - 23 Jul

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Synopsis "Breakneck. China's Quest to Engineer the Future"

America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China has been busy building the future. Over the past six years, technology analyst Dan Wang lived through China’s astonishing, messy progress and the dissolution of its relationship to the West.

In Breakneck, Wang offers a new framework for understanding China — which helps us to see global geopolitics more clearly too. While China is an engineering state, fearlessly building megaprojects, America is a lawyerly society, reflexively blocking everything, good and bad. Building big has fuelled China’s economic ascent. At the same time, social engineering has led to unbearable costs, including the traumas of zero-Covid and the one-child policy. Wang traverses China’s dazzling metropolises and factory complexes, blending political and economic analysis with reportage to show how the Communist Party’s darkening ambitions have unsettled its people.

As the US and China are gearing up for a new Cold War, Breakneck reveals both the remarkable strengths and the appalling weaknesses of the engineering state. China has learned from the West's successes and failures - and now we in turn can learn from China, not least by taking its global ambitions seriously.

Dan Wang

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Dan Wang es conocido por sus ensayos anuales sobre tecnología, manufactura y geopolítica, donde combina observación directa, análisis económico y un tono reflexivo que lo distingue dentro del debate global. De origen canadiense-estadounidense y vinculado al sector tecnológico en China durante varios años, ha desarrollado una mirada crítica sobre las tensiones entre innovación, educación y políticas industriales. Su trabajo circula ampliamente entre académicos, emprendedores y responsables de políticas, gracias a su estilo claro y a su insistencia en verificar datos antes de construir conclusiones.

A falta de obras de ficción o libros de autoría verificable, su aporte más sólido proviene de estos informes y ensayos que se han convertido en referencia para comprender la relación entre tecnología y poder en el siglo XXI. Su estilo combina curiosidad escéptica con una preferencia por la evidencia concreta, lo que lo ha hecho destacar como una voz independiente en un campo saturado de opiniones rápidas. Su obra más conocida es su serie de Annual Letters, donde sintetiza tendencias y reflexiones de cada año.

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