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A Small Boat on the Great River of Human Innovation

Tsinghua scholar Xue Lan on how the book retells the history of innovation — human needs as its thread, vivid stories and rigorous data as its method.

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A Minority Voice Worth Cherishing in the Landscape of Ideas

Investor Yan Yan on incremental innovation versus major breakthroughs and the coming AI revolution — and why this book is a minority voice worth cherishing.

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Why Do Humans Innovate

Historian of science Sun Xiaochun on the book's grand thought experiment — needs as warp, innovation as weft — and on an author who keeps revising her own views.

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