Brian Schnack’s Reviews > The FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress > Status Update

“China's story raises the specter of the end of progress, the death of dynamism even in its limited, technological form. Social, economic, scientific, and cultural vitality-and the accumulation and transmission of knowledge-are not conditions we can take for granted. They are fragile and often fleeting, vulnerable to both attacks and neglect. They require the right environment.”