Chen Guangcheng Speaks from New York
Chen Guangcheng, who arrived in New York on Saturday, greeted a cheering crowd outside New York University with a short speech. From NTDTV, via Shanghaiist: From the Associated Press: “I believe that...
View ArticleThis American Life: Americans in China
This American Life broadcast a segment on Americans in China. From the prologue: Months ago, in preparing for this show, we started reaching out to Americans living in China and asking for their...
View ArticleChina’s Gangnam Style & the K-Pop War Machine
After the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs a year ago today, some in China pondered the country’s failure to produce a similarly iconic business leader. The Ningbo city government even launched a...
View ArticleBoss Rail: How the Wenzhou Crash Exposed Corruption in China (Updated)
In the New Yorker, Evan Osnos has written an in-depth exploration of the July 2011 train crash in Wenzhou, which killed 40 people and generated online outrage over the government’s handling of the...
View ArticleNew York Times Wen Exposé Makes Waves
David Barboza’s investigation of the wealth built by Wen Jiabao’s extended family has dominated China news since its publication by The New York Times early on Friday. While the basic fact that wealth...
View ArticleBlack Friday in Red China
November 11th was Singles Day—in Evan Osnos’ words, the “Chinese answer to Black Friday … an orgy of consumption on a level the world has rarely seen”. At The New Yorker, Osnos contrasts this festival...
View ArticleTop Ten Myths About China in 2012
At The New Yorker, Evan Osnos suggests that 2012 may have marked a turning point in the erosion of accepted myths about China. Ten, he says, have collapsed over the past year: myths about government...
View ArticleMo Yan Addresses Critics in Nobel Lecture
Nobel-winning author Mo Yan delivered his official lecture in Stockholm on Friday, recounting his development as a storyteller through tales of his rural upbringing and especially of his relationship...
View ArticleWith Reporters Under Fire, Can U.S. Do More?
After foreign reporters increased their scrutiny of the Chinese government and its politicians in 2012, and with a backlash ensuing against them and their publications, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos...
View ArticleArtist Puts iPad on Pedestal
The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos talks to artist Li Liao about his piece Consumption, currently on display in Beijing in an exhibition of 50 young, post-Mao Chinese artists. The work consists of objects...
View ArticleContemporary Chinese Art: Young and Restless
At The Economist’s Analects blog, Alec Ash discusses ON / OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice. The exhibition at Beijing’s Ullens Center includes the Foxconn-focused Consumption by Li...
View ArticleHollywood, China, & Freedom to Blow Up Tiananmen
While China may have finally scaled the highest pinnacle of international literary acclaim, no such triumph is on the cards atop tonight’s glittering pile of Oscars. Didi Kirsten Tatlow at IHT...
View ArticleEvan Osnos: The High Bar of The New Chinese Dream
In an interview with Asia Society’s Dan Washburn, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos gives his thoughts on the nature and implications of the “Chinese Dream”, “the first Chinese political slogan that makes...
View ArticleEvan Osnos on the Resonance of “Gatsby” in China
The New Yorker’s Beijing correspondent Evan Osnos, who recently published on the pertinence of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby to a modern Chinese audience, spoke with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer. In...
View ArticleSinica: The Evan Osnos Exit Interview
On the Sinica podcast, Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn talk to The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos as he prepares to leave Beijing after eight years. Osnos describes his forthcoming book, due in Spring 2014, on...
View ArticleEvan 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View Article2014: 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...
View ArticleConfucius 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...
View ArticleWhich 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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