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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang sunflowers MELILLO is professor of historyFor close to a decade, technology analyst Dan Wang "a gifted observer of contemporary China" (Ross Douthat) has been living through the country's astonishing, messy progress. China's towering bridges, gleaming railways, and sprawling factories have improved economic outcomes in record time. But rapid change has also sent ripples of pain throughout the society. This reality political repression and astonishing growth is not a paradox, but rather a