#  When the Chips Are Down 

 





Essay in New York Review of Books discusses Ya-Wen Lei's book, The Gilded Cage.



 

February 11, 2026

 

 

*To understand why Xi is making these decisions, there is no better guide than the Harvard sociologist Ya-Wen Lei’s The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China. Her masterful study of what she calls China’s regime of “techno-development..."*[Read more here.](https://www-nybooks-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/articles/2026/02/26/when-the-chips-are-down-china-us-ai/)

[*The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China*](https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-gilded-cage-technology-development-and-state-capitalism-in-china-ya-wen-lei/4edb6da3d298a04d?ean=9780691212821&next=t&next=t&affiliate=312) by Ya-Wen Lei



 

 

 



 

 

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