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

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