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A review by rstadler
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
3.0
I enjoyed this book, mostly the second section. The first section took a while for me to get interested, so I guess maybe as somebody who'd been living in China at around the same time as Mr. Osnos, it seemed boring to recant these things in this way.
The third section wasn't bad, though veered sort of randomly off into a chapter about Chinese Christians that I guess fit in thematically with this idea of a lack of institutions to put faith in but seemed out of place to me anyway.
Overall a book I would not hesitate to recommend to somebody who is maybe a little less familiar with China. For those who are, I'd still give it a recommendation though with more disclaimers I guess.
The third section wasn't bad, though veered sort of randomly off into a chapter about Chinese Christians that I guess fit in thematically with this idea of a lack of institutions to put faith in but seemed out of place to me anyway.
Overall a book I would not hesitate to recommend to somebody who is maybe a little less familiar with China. For those who are, I'd still give it a recommendation though with more disclaimers I guess.