Dan Wang | Dan Wang on Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

Dan Wang

New York Times bestseller

Dan Wang is the author of Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future, a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Financial Times/Schroders business book of the year prize. He is a is a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and previously a fellow at the Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Dan was based in China as the technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics from 2017 to 2023, where he wrote a widely circulated annual letter on China. His essays have appeared in New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, New York Magazine, and The Atlantic. He studied philosophy at the University of Rochester. Dan is based in Ann Arbor and Palo Alto.