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What Would Trump’s China Policy Look Like?

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has famously spoken a lot about China. With his victory in November looking less unlikely than it has for weeks, the question looms of how these...

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Cultural Revolution Concert Draws Controversy

Fifty years ago this month began the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong’s decade-long sociopolitical movement that ushered in violence, social, and economic upheaval throughout China....

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Asia Society Podcast: Who Is Xi Jinping?

In the first episode of a new podcast for Asia Society, Eric Fish gathers experts’ views on Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The commentary covers Xi’s princeling background and early career, his crackdowns...

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How China’s Public Saw the Beijing Parade

Though Thursday’s grand military parade in Beijing cast a barrage of accusations at Japan, a glimpse of carrier-killing missiles at the U.S., and a catalog of other weaponry at potential buyers, its...

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A Blind Lawyer vs. Blind Chinese Power

At The New York Review of Books, Evan Osnos discusses “The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man’s Fight for Justice and Freedom in China” by Chen Guangcheng. Osnos describes Chen’s activism and long house...

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What Did China’s First Daughter Find in America?

Following his in-depth profile of Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos writes on the possible effects of Xi’s daughter’s formative years spent at Harvard. At twenty-two, Xi...

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Xi Jinping: Rise of the Red Prince

This month saw the second anniversary of Xi Jinping’s accession to China’s presidency, completing the transfer of leadership over Party, military and state. In a broad profile at The New Yorker, Evan...

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Osnos and Hessler: To Publish Or Not in China

Former New Yorker China correspondents Evan Osnos and Peter Hessler have written about their experiences publishing Chinese versions of their China-related books. Osnos chose not to publish a...

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Evan Osnos: The Arc of Possibility

For Guernica Magazine, Jason Ng interviews New Yorker correspondent Evan Osnos about the ongoing protest movement in Hong Kong, civil society in China, and his book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune,...

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Talking to China’s “Web Junkies”

The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos comments on the politically-tinged medicalization of Internet addiction in China, and on the documentary Web Junkie by Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia. In China today,...

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Mainland Censorship: Authors Cut Their Losses

At The South China Morning Post, Dinah Gardiner talks to writers and publishers—including Evan Osnos, Peter Hessler, Ezra Vogel, and Perry Link—who have had to make the choice between appeasing Chinese...

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Ambition and Amnesia in the New China

A number of new books look at the social and economic transformation of China in recent decades and how it has impacted individual lives. Leta Hong Fincher’s book Leftover Women: The Resurgence of...

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Myths About China (That I’m Sorry I Helped Spread)

Evan Osnos, who recently published a new book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, debunks several widely held myths about China at Politico Magazine: China’s economy...

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Q&A With Evan Osnos on New Book ‘Age of Ambition’

At Sinosphere, Austin Ramzy speaks with Evan Osnos about his new book Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, released today: Q. You write that one of the reasons you chose...

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Evan Osnos On Not Publishing His Book In China

At The New York Times, former New Yorker China correspondent Evan Osnos explains why he decided against publishing his new book in Mainland China: After reading the manuscript, an editor in Shanghai...

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Which is More Corrupt: Virginia or Sichuan?

Following the indictment last week of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell and his wife, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos compares political corruption in China and the U.S.: If you go back and forth...

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Confucius Comes Home

The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos examines Confucianism’s post-Cultural Revolution rehabilitation: No one has harnessed the interest in Confucius more successfully than Yu Dan, a professor of media studies...

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2014: 10 China Stories On The Horizon

At The New Yorker, former China correspondent Evan Osnos predicts next year’s top ten China stories from continued unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang to the increasing danger of water pollution: 1. Unrest in...

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The Pursuit of Fortune, Truth, and Faith in China

The Claremont Colleges’ Keck Journal of Foreign Affairs interviewed former New Yorker China correspondent Evan Osnos about his view on China and his work there: The breakdown of obstacles that hindered...

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Evan Osnos: A Billion Stories

In his last Letter from China “for a while” at The New Yorker, Evan Osnos describes his fascination with the billion-plus individual stories making up that of China as a whole. One of them, he writes,...

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