When we remember presidents who didn't fulfill their promises - for instance George H.W. Bush saying no new taxes or Barack Obama… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“China reminds me most of America at its own moment of transformation—the period that Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the Gilded Age, when… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“The greatest difference between Internet dating in America and in China was conceptual: in America, it had the power to expand your universe of… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“I look forward to the day when our country will be a land of free expression: a country where the words of each citizen… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“The difference in life expectancy and income between China’s wealthiest cities and its poorest provinces is the difference between New York and Ghana.” — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“With so many thinkers “spending so much energy fighting over words and ink, we have forgotten to criticize government authority; we have forgotten to… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“Liang Qichao, one of China’s leading reformers of the early twentieth century, hailed the importance of the individual in national development, but renounced that… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“Confucius, the philosopher and politician who was born in the sixth century B.C.E. He acquired a place in Chinese history akin to that of… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“We spoke in Chinese, but when he was surprised, he’d say, “Oh, my Lady Gaga!,” an English expression he’d picked up at school.” — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“Sandel, and the political philosophy he taught, offered Chinese young people a vocabulary that they found useful and challenging but not subversive, a framework… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
Orville Schell and John Delury have delivered a brilliantly original and essential book: the road map to China’s quest for national salvation... Vivid, literate,… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“Mao sanctified propaganda and censorship as essential parts of Thought Work, and he relied on them to reframe the Long March as a strategic… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
