Evan Osnos
Evan Osnos
Evan Lionel Richard Osnosis an American journalist and author. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008, best known for his coverage of China. He is the author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, which won the 2014 National Book Award for nonfiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth24 December 1976
CountryUnited States of America
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Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.
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Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.
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Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.
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Christianity is permitted under China's constitution, and the government has long supported a network of official Christian churches.
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Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
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China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.
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China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.
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China doesn't have a single leader. It has - a first among equals is the president, and his name will probably be Xi Jinping, almost certainly.
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China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.
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Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.
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Beijing has a glut of charming and traditional or brash and luxurious places to stay.
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As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.
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China's Communist Party is wary of independent-minded movements.
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I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.