Dan Wang
Writer on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck (2025) and yearly letters.
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- Dan Wang is a Canadian technology analyst and writer on contemporary China.
- 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.
- Based in China from 2017 to 2023, he writes widely read annual letters.
- His book Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (2025) reached No.
- 3 on the New York Times bestseller list.
Key facts
- Background
- Born in Yunnan, China; raised in Ottawa and Toronto1
- Education
- Economics and philosophy, University of Rochester (2014)1
- Roles
- Analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics; visiting scholar at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center; research fellow at the Hoover Institution1
- Annual letters
- Yearly letters on China's economy, technology and culture; he was based in China from 2017 to 20231
- Breakneck
- Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (August 2025); No. 3 on the New York Times bestseller list and a finalist for the FT/Schroders business book of the year2
- 2025
- Moved from Yale to Stanford, by his 2025 letter2
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