Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New ChinaModern · China, Nonfiction, History
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
2014 · 403 pages · Nonfiction
62
Modern
★ 4.24 on Goodreads · 9K ratings
≈ 10 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
National Book Award (Nonfiction) winner (2014). 4.24★ from 9K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
62Must-Read Score
- Critics63 out of 100 · counts 35%+25
- Readers63 out of 100 · counts 50%+37
- Buzz3 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #58 of the 220 history books we rank
- #77 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #220 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- National Book Award (Nonfiction) winner (2014)
Shortlisted
- Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) finalist (2015)
Reads as
True story
Already read it? Upload your Goodreads or StoryGraph history and get the 50 best books you haven't read, tuned to your taste.Get my 50
If you like this, read next
Between the World and Me
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets