India, June 21 -- What is it like being part of the "China story", one of 1.4 billion in an economy that has grown 3,000% since the 1980s?

What do survival and success look like? How does young China cope with the added weight of a regime that treats resistance as treason?

What lessons could their experience hold for the rest of us?

British-Chinese writer Yuan Yang, 35, investigates these questions in her book, Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China (2024).

A former Financial Times (FT) journalist, Yang was born in China and lived there, with her grandparents, until she was four. In 1994, she joined her parents in the UK. She only returned to the country of her birth about two decades later, in 2016.

Living there as a jour...