Dan Wang Audiobooks

Breakneck: China's quest to engineer the future, argued from the technology side

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Who is Dan Wang?

Dan Wang is a Canadian technology analyst and writer whose specialism is contemporary China. His career has run through some serious institutions: he has been an analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, a visiting scholar at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Wang’s particular angle is technology as the lens through which to read US-China relations, from semiconductor manufacturing to social media, and he has commented extensively on both. That work culminated in his book Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future, released in August 2025 – the moment at which a widely followed analyst became an author with a full-length argument to make.

Dan Wang in audiobooks

Breakneck is the Wang title in our catalogue, and it belongs to a category that does consistently well in audio: the single-argument book about how the world is changing, written by someone who has done the technical homework. China’s push to engineer its future is one of the defining stories of the decade, and Wang approaches it from the technology side rather than the usual political commentary.

For UK listeners who follow the news and want more depth than a headline allows, this is exactly the sort of listening that repays a long walk: analytical, current and concerned with things that will still matter in ten years.