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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The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.
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I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.
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Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.
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When Libya was in turmoil in 2011, the Chinese public was surprised to discover that more than thirty thousand of their countrymen were living there, most of them working on Chinese-run oil projects.
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When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, so it had a limited array of entertainment to provide.
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For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.
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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.