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    China’s “Age of Ambition” with Evan Osnos

    In the past 25 years, Evan Osnos says China has transformed itself at “one hundred times the scale and ten times the speed of the first Industrial Revolution.” What has that been like for the people who live there? How have they had to change their behavior—and their thinking? How has the Communist Party survived and retained power?

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    By Warren Olney • Aug 29, 2014 • 1 min read

    In the past 25 years, Evan Osnos says China has transformed itself at “one hundred times the scale and ten times the speed of the first Industrial Revolution.” What has that been like for the people who live there? How have they had to change their behavior—and their thinking? How has the Communist Party survived and retained power? He speaks about this in his book Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Evan Osnos

      staff writer for The New Yorker

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