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...
View ArticleQ&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...
View ArticleMyths 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...
View ArticleAmbition 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...
View ArticleMainland 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...
View ArticleTalking 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,...
View ArticleEvan 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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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...
View ArticleXi 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleAsia 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...
View ArticleCultural 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....
View ArticleWhat 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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