A toda máquina : China y la gran carrera por el futuro

For nearly a decade, Dan Wang has observed China's tumultuous growth. The state has erected colossal bridges, modern rail networks, and vast factories in record time to propel the economy forward, though this accelerated change has also come at a high social cost. China has grown so rapidly, in part, by beating the United States on its own turf: capitalism and the mobilization of a massive population. In Full Steam Ahead, Wang combines political and economic analysis with reportage, proposing a provocative framework for understanding China that, at the same time, sheds new light on the United States: a state of engineers focused on building versus a society dominated by lawyers that blocks change. Against a backdrop of tense and uncertain relations between the two powers, Full Steam Ahead offers a new way of thinking about China and the United States, and shows how each points the way to a better path for the other.