Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other (Ep. 263)
His prescription: America should become 20% more engineering-minded to fix its broken infrastructure, while China needs to be 50% more lawyerly...
Dan Wang
About. 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...
Ambassador Xie Feng and Madam Wang Dan celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival with compatriots from both sides of the Taiwan Strait_Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America
Ambassador Xie said that dragon boat races embody a spirit of courageously aiming for the top, and also reflect the resilience and unity of the...
Dan Wang | Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
Wang blends political, economic, and philosophical analysis with reportage to reveal a provocative new framework for understanding China―one...
Lawyers vs. engineers: Dan Wang sees U.S.-China dynamics in a new paradigm
There are many thought-provoking observations like these in his book, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future. For example, Wang notices...
Dan Wang ’90 – Alumni Showcase
Nowadays, my studio work makes use of performance, installation, and new media. Current and ongoing obsessions include histories of technology,...
Dan Wang on Engineers vs. Lawyers
China is an engineering state, where a sledgehammer is the tool for all jobs; the U.S. is a lawyerly society, where everything is gavelled to a halt. The book...
Hoover fellow Dan Wang advocates for ‘abundance’
Oct. 13, 2025, 12:42 a.m.. “Who here wants to own a house in their lifetime?” Stanford Abundance...
China vs America: Dan Wang and his sceptics
Wang's key framing is that China is run by engineers while America is run by lawyers. China does things that engineers are good at, such as...
Breakneck: Dan Wang Explores the Strange Symmetry of US and China
The Chinese would be better off in certain ways by becoming more American, and vice versa. The first nation to adopt its counterpart's...
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One of the student leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen protests long-time democracy activist living in exile.