James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and formerly a chief speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter. He’s the author of many books, including Breaking the News, Postcards from Tomorrow Square, Free Flight, and China Airborne.

Orientalism

China Airborne chronicles the rising power’s huge ambitions to dominate the aerospace industry the way Boeing once did. Its author, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, shares his five favorite “outsiders in China” books.