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Breakneck: Why China needs to learn to build less and America to build more

Wang is a Canadian citizen who migrated from China at a young age with his parents, and later went on to work in the Silicon Valley

Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
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Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

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Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
by  Dan Wang
Published by  Penguin Random House
260 pages ₹1,499
 
 
Cheap, capricious, unreliable. Reading the words “Made in China” on a product brought these words to mind not so long ago. But no more. With China now a hub of production and manufacturing for major companies across the globe, things today are different. Dan Wang’s Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future shows how far China has come in the fields of manufacturing and infrastructure and the price paid by its people to reach this point. It also compares China and America as they race