“The People’s Daily summoned the language of another era and warned that constitutionalism, the call to put the Party under the rule of law, was “a weapon for information and psychological warfare used by the magnates of American monopoly capitalism… — 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
