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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.

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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 An eye-opening global tour of the growing influence of the new superpower. A fascinating, illuminating book. -- Rob Gifford, Senior Editor, Economist Doggedly reported and fiercely argued, this cri de coeur offers essential insight into Beijing's 'aims and activites.' -- Publishers Weekly

"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"" An eye-opening global tour of the growing influence of the new superpower. A fascinating, illuminating book. -- ""Rob Gifford, Senior Editor, Economist"" Doggedly reported and fiercely argued, this cri de coeur offers essential insight into Beijing's 'aims and activites.' -- ""Publishers Weekly"""

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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. 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.

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