Breakneck

A new theory of China's rise... Illuminating... The "engineering state" is a useful way to think about industrial competition between America and China

A new theory of China's rise... Illuminating... The "engineering state" is a useful way to think about industrial competition between America and China

A new lens for understanding the two superpowers... Wang brings curiosity, open-mindedness and intellectual rigour to this book, along with a sympathy and admiration for both China and the US

Dan Wang's compelling and provocative book explores both the merits and the madness of China's engineering state... Wang deftly mixes data-rich analysis with vivid personal anecdotes and punchy opinions

Easily one of the best books on China published this year... Wang has written that rare thing: a book on China that avoids the clichés and conventions of the genre and that is based on first-hand knowledge instead of impressions gleaned from reading English-language sources from abroad... policymakers in the UK would do well to ponder whether its message has any implication for this country

An illuminating account of China's dizzying rise and its deepening pathologies

Dan Wang is an indispensable voice on China issues because he has the rarest combination of precious resources: deep knowledge and unflinching judgment. Half of his mind runs on philosophy, the other half runs on engineering. If Dan did not already exist, we would need to invent him for precisely this day and age

A brilliant book about how China got ahead, the United States stagnated, and the challenges that both will face in the future

A must-read book on the intense competition between the United States and China for global leadership in the twenty-first century

A timely meditation on technology and governance -- and a rollicking read, to boot

The best recent book on China, on China and America, and arguably the best book of the year flat out. It is marvelously written and brilliantly understands the dilemmas of our modern world

Dan Wang is a research fellow at the Hoover History Lab at Stanford University. He was previously a fellow at the Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and the technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, working in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai. Dan is the author of an annual letter from China and has published essays in the New York Times , Foreign Affairs, Financial Times , New York Magazine and the Atlantic .