Evan Osnos

“China reminds me most of America at its own moment of transformation—the period that Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the Gilded…

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“The greatest difference between Internet dating in America and in China was conceptual: in America, it had the power to expand your…

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“I look forward to the day when our country will be a land of free expression: a country where the words of…

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“The difference in life expectancy and income between China’s wealthiest cities and its poorest provinces is the difference between New York and…

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“With so many thinkers “spending so much energy fighting over words and ink, we have forgotten to criticize government authority; we have…

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“Liang Qichao, one of China’s leading reformers of the early twentieth century, hailed the importance of the individual in national development, but…

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“shot of adrenaline that awakens us from our apathy,”

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“Confucius, the philosopher and politician who was born in the sixth century B.C.E. He acquired a place in Chinese history akin to…

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“We spoke in Chinese, but when he was surprised, he’d say, “Oh, my Lady Gaga!,” an English expression he’d picked up at…

— Evan Osnos

“Sandel, and the political philosophy he taught, offered Chinese young people a vocabulary that they found useful and challenging but not subversive,…

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Orville Schell and John Delury have delivered a brilliantly original and essential book: the road map to China’s quest for national salvation...…

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“Mao sanctified propaganda and censorship as essential parts of Thought Work, and he relied on them to reframe the Long March as…

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If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned…

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“In a series of experiments, they found that Chinese investors overwhelmingly described themselves as more cautious than Americans. But when they were…

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Often Americans have heard Donald Trump be very hard on China. But that's not how it's heard over there. In China, his…

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“The “Publicity” in the title was for English purposes; the Chinese name was the Central Propaganda Department, and it was one of…

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“The People’s Daily summoned the language of another era and warned that constitutionalism, the call to put the Party under the rule…

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“To survive in China you must reveal nothing to others. Or it could be used against you … That’s why I’ve come to…

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Donald Trump is an American presidential nominee who was describing Russia in terms that they haven't heard almost ever. And so there…

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When we remember presidents who didn't fulfill their promises - for instance George H.W. Bush saying no new taxes or Barack Obama…

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“The commander of a mighty army can be captured, but the aspiration of an ordinary man can never be seized. —Confucius”

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“When it became clear that Xi Jinping was placing his bet on fortifying the status quo, another Party aristocrat, Hu Dehua, the…

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“In the years of the boom, people had picked up more reasons to fear the law than to trust it.”

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Actually the idea of having Mexico pay for the wall on the southern border is a nonstarter. That seems to be generally…

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“Hope is like a path in the countryside: originally there was no path, but once people begin to pass, a way appears.”

— Evan Osnos