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Age of Ambition

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Age of Ambition

By Evan Osnos

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About the book

This book is the winner of the National Book Award 2014. A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'. Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that make up China's story - one that unfolds on remote farms, in glittering mansions, and in the halls of power of the world's largest authorit...Show more

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9780099589976

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Published year

2015

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1

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Age of Ambition

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Paperback

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