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A brilliantly original and essential book. . . . Wealth and Power deserves to become a classic.
Evan Osnos, China correspondent, The New Yorker
WEALTH
Chinas Long March to the Twenty-first Century By Orville Schell and John Delury
Random House | HC | 978-0-679-64347-0 | 496pp. $30.00/$34.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.00 Also Available: e-Book: 978-0-679-64538-2 | $14.99/$16.99 Can.
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Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of todays foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this countrys rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal.
Wealth and Power offers everything readers might expect from its two eminent authors. It is both sweeping and specific, authoritative and lively, sympathetic and critical, offering the perspective of both the hedgehog and the fox. The hardest challenge in writing about China, or finding things to read about it, is perceiving significant patterns while remaining aware of the chaos and contradictions. Orville Schell and John Delury meet that challenge in exemplary form. James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic Orville Schell was educated at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley and is the author of numerous books and articles on China. The former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley, he is presently the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City.