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Cargando... Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (2014)por Evan Osnos
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is not a bad book, by no means, but apart from some interesting anecdotes I am really not sure what to take away. The author tries to frame china in a western world view and this leaves the impression of a distorted picture of reality. Especially all his criticism of the CPC seems a bit hollow if you have in mind that for all the people he talks to there is never someone interviewed who could give a real inside view into the party. How are they selected? What is their style of work, especially regarding policy-implementation? How do people rise up in the ranks? Well, there is that one guy from the propaganda department who created a play on Confucius and on the one page where he gets to say something he leaves a good impression on me. So in the end I got the impression that for all the experience the author almost surely possesses concerning China we get a (bit) biased pro-westernish view which does not tell the whole story, though I believe he tried to be neutral. A cultural anthropology view of China, with a strong Western morality bias. Osnos expands on many threads, with some I really love (opening with the story of the Taiwanese deserter who became an econ professor in China), to the blind self-taught lawyer, to others that were more naggy and more of the same. A nuanced view of China just before Xi's ascent into power. I feel I needed to read this earlier. I feel I receive a more balanced view of China from a friend who has lived the last 7 years as an expat in Beijing and Shanghai than from a western journalist. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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After five years as a correspondent in China for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos has written one of the books that best explains the country's complex reality in a crucial moment of its history. In China: la edad de la ambición, he analyzes three major themes: the search for prosperity, attempts at democratic openness, and spirituality --all amid the omnipresent Community Party. The book also incorporates accounts from various citizens, some anonymous and some famous, as in the case of Ai Weiwei, on the effects of this breakneck pursuit of wealth on all areas of Chinese society. Tras pasar cinco años como corresponsal en China de la revista New Yorker, Evan Osnos ha escrito uno de los libros que mejor explica la compleja realidad del gigante asiático en un momento crucial de su historia. El libro analiza tres grandes temas -la búsqueda de la prosperidad, los intentos de apertura democrática y la espiritualidad; con la presencia omnipresente del Partido Comunista. El libro también reúne los testimonios de distintos ciudadanos, algunos anónimos y otros tan famosos como Ai Weiwei, el artista que se ha atrevido a denunciar los abusos del macro estado inmerso en esta Edad de la Ambición. Esta desenfrenada carrera por la riqueza afecta a todos los estratos de la sociedad china y amenaza con romper la estabilidad social que ha sido la clave de su éxito. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I look at the picture of that aircraft carrier and wonder what the size of the graft is that lurks beneath the hull of that mega-monster ship.
Because China today as when Evan Osnos wrote this book some years ago is still mired in the privilege of the elites and huge corruption even as its storied growth slows to mere epic levels.
Osnos’ book tries but in my opinion does not quite convey the entrepreneurial zest of 21st century China, nor the massive political capital the authoritarian regime has created in a mere two generations.
Rather he focuses on it’s soft underbelly and insecurities.
When I think of my own country Canada I see three centuries of scraping the countryside of its treasures and negligible influence on the world stage.
What few people will acknowledge today is that Mao’s slaughter of millions in China due to incompetent gov’t set the stage for a massive comeback using virtually slave labour to rob the West of its wealth under its own nose.
Nixon played the “China card” to push the Soviet Union into irrelevance not realizing that unleashing the Asian tiger would also be America’s undoing.
Osnos seems to think that the Chinese state needs a better rudder than the Communist Leadership can offer now or ever, and he may have a point.
When I think of a state with so many cities of 20 million or more souls, enormous environmental challenges, the aging workforce, the imperative for growth, I can barely comprehend the pressures on this government. ( )