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"If Breakneck allows Western readers to understand how China engineers the future from a familiar and safe perspective, then reading Hu’s account reveals how a gifted storyteller—an unfortunate everyman—becomes pinned to China’s ground, unable to escape." — @afrawang.bsky.social
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Learn to Love Engineers | Los Angeles Review of Books
New books by Dan Wang and Hu Anyan depict ‘both the achievements and the costs of China’s technological rise,’ and why Americans should take note.