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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

Dan Wang · 2025

Recommended by 4 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Jason Furman recommends it
It's powerful because it's simple without being simplistic and, like Rogoff's book, is interspersed with engaging personal stories that deepen the substantive argument.

on fivebooks.com · 21 Dec 2025

Jasmine Sun recommends it
Breakneck is also worth reading because it's fun: it's a political economy book with chutzpah, as China letter aficionados will expect.

on jasmi.news · 2 Aug 2025

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.