China Unbound, Joanna Chiu
China Unbound, Joanna Chiu
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China Unbound
A New World Disorder

Author: Joanna Chiu

Narrator: Nancy Wu

Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/04/2021


Synopsis

While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become the world’s dominant power.As the second-largest economy, China is now extending its influence across the globe. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the complicity of democratic nations, to a new colonialism coming from its multibillion-dollar “New Silk Road” initiative, to its growing sway on foreign countries and multilateral institutions.Chiu transports readers to protests in Hong Kong, underground churches in Beijing, and exile Uighur communities in Turkey, exposing Beijing’s use of high-tech police surveillance and aggressive human-rights violations against those who challenge its power. With increasingly close ties between authoritarian states, the new world order documented in China Unbound lays out the disturbing implications for prosperity and freedom everywhere.

About Joanna Chiu

Joanna Chiu is an internationally recognized authority on China whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Foreign Policy, the BBC, The Atlantic, Newsweek, Quartz, Al Jazeera, GlobalPost, CBC, and NPR. For seven years she was based in China as a foreign correspondent, winning numerous awards while reporting for top news agencies. She is a senior journalist for the Toronto Star and previously served as bureau chief of the Star Vancouver.

About Nancy Wu

Nancy Wu has narrated audiobooks since 2004, winning three AudioFile Earphones Awards. A New York theater, television, and film actor, she has recorded in studios all over the world—from Italy to Switzerland to Thailand. Her credits include Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Hope & Faith, All My Children, Made for Each Other, and the Oscar-nominated film Frozen River.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Venky on October 13, 2021

One of the most cherished freedoms accorded to the citizens of any nation is that of free speech. Stifling free speech and compromising the right of individuals to criticize the Government does not augur well for the socio-cultural progress of any nation. This notwithstanding the fact that economica......more


Quotes

“Doggedly reported and fiercely argued, this cri de coeur offers essential insight into Beijing’s ‘aims and activites.’” Publishers Weekly

“An eye-opening global tour of the growing influence of the new superpower. A fascinating, illuminating book.” Rob Gifford, Senior Editor, Economist

“A devastating analysis of the Chinese police state gone global. China Unbound is essential to understanding the fragility of peace in the twenty-first century.” Jan Wong, author of Red China Blues

“A sweeping, timely, and nuanced read for anyone who cares about the global rise of authoritarianism.” Leta Hong Fincher, author of Betraying Big Brother

“A vivid, perspicacious, and ultimately disillusioned book about the current direction of China that delivers an urgent and much-needed caution against xenophobia toward Chinese people at a time of growing tensions with a new superpower.” Howard W. French, author of Born in Blackness