Dealing with China

Few Westerners have dealt with China’s leaders as closely as Henry Paulson, first as a Goldman Sachs banker and then as U.S. Treasury Secretary during the financial crisis. Here he draws on those decades to explain how modern China was built, profiling the officials and entrepreneurs behind its rise and weighing the tensions in its state-driven capitalism. It is a clear-eyed insider’s guide to the world’s most consequential economic relationship. Mark Zuckerberg chose it for A Year of Books.