why i love this: it is as close to a chinese account of china as i can get in the english language. his insight on china being engineering-driven and america being lawyerly is fresh and largely convincing. his description of the lot of middle-aged chinese immigrants in u.s. suburbia is pretty much spot on.
why i take this with a pinch of salt: he is young and it shows and his bias is american and it shows. having lived through an attempt at zero-covid myself i think his description is quasi-accurate and the emotional impact may potentially be a little exaggerated.
nevertheless this is a thought-provoking and well written book that actually has a different thought per chapter, unlike many books that struggle to say something fresh after chapter 2.
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