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Book Talk With Dan Wang: "Breakneck: China's Quest To Engineer The Future"

Book Talk With Dan Wang: "Breakneck: China's Quest To Engineer The Future"

Update: 2025-10-30
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The Hoover History Lab invites you to "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future", a book talk with the author, Dan Wang, on Monday, October 27, 2025 from 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. PT in the Shultz Auditorium, George P. Shultz Building.


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Dan Wang is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, in its Hoover History Lab and is one of the most-cited experts on China’s technological capabilities. He is the author of the forthcoming Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (W. W. Norton [US] and Penguin [UK], Fall 2025).


Stephen Kotkin is director of the Hoover History Lab, Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and senior fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has been conducting research in the Hoover Library & Archives for more than three decades.

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Book Talk With Dan Wang: "Breakneck: China's Quest To Engineer The Future"

Book Talk With Dan Wang: "Breakneck: China's Quest To Engineer The Future"

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