'Some who tried succeeded many others did not.' Some of the featured subjects are prominent, including artist Ai Weiwei and economist Justin Yifu Lin others are not prominent citizens, including a teacher, a street sweeper, and an auctioneer imprisoned for bribing judges.

The title refers to an emerging sense of individual aspiration, 'a belief in the sheer possibility to remake a life,' Osnos writes. Osnos chronicles their journeys and reflects on the political implications. Summary īased partly on Osnos' reports in The New Yorker, the book describes his travels in China, where he interviewed people swept up by economic, political, and social change. The book was awarded the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2014 and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Īge of Ambition was originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2014. Age of Ambition chronicles the lives of people that Osnos came to know while he was in China from 2005 to 2013. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China is a non-fiction book by Evan Osnos, a staff writer at The New Yorker.

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