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There's a tradition in the history of dissent in authoritarian countries of a certain kind of dissident, and their form of dissent is to live their lives as normally as possible.
- Evan Osnos
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#History
#Live
#Possible
#Tradition
By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.
- Evan Osnos
#Africa
#Average
#China
#Mean
#People
The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women.
- Evan Osnos
#Internet
#Men
#Political
#Women
#Youth
At the age of eighty, the Dalai Lama has begun to discuss a range of prospects for the future disposition of his soul. Traditionally, after he dies, a search party of senior monks would set out to locate his new incarnation, who is most often a boy toddler, who goes on to be trained as a monk and a leader.
- Evan Osnos
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#Future
#New
#Search
#Soul
Valuing the road over the goal was a Taoist goal in itself.
- Evan Osnos
#Goal
#Itself
#Over
#Road
#Valuing
To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.
- Evan Osnos
#Famous
#Life
#Person
#Short
#Surprise
In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher.
- Evan Osnos
#China
#House
#Important
#Temple
#Year
There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.
- Evan Osnos
#Ambition
#Building
#Political
#Roads
When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew.
- Evan Osnos
#Building
#Country
#Everything
#Live
#Low
Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't. And he says the American dream is dead.
- Evan Osnos
#American Dream
#American
#Dead
#Despair
For years, American officials visiting China marvelled at how Chinese leaders could push through infrastructure projects and sweeping legislative changes without the complications of opposition and the niceties of voting.
- Evan Osnos
#American
#Infrastructure
#Push
#Voting
By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards.
- Evan Osnos
#Business
#New
#Own
#People
#Professional
China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.
- Evan Osnos
#China
#Claim
#Other
#Sea
#Which
The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
- Evan Osnos
#Age
#Mistakes
#Mystery
#Political
#Real
Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.
- Evan Osnos
#Currency
#Internet
#Odds
#Transparency
To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.
- Evan Osnos
#Conformity
#Harmony
#Loyal
#Opposition
The Da Jing street market is little more than a few narrow intersections, barely six blocks long. But for a visitor, it is a living, breathing education in Shanghai cuisine, a style distinguished by its thick savory sauces spiked with sugar and soy sauce.
- Evan Osnos
#Education
#Living
#Long
#Street
#Style
By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.
- Evan Osnos
#Behind
#City
#Great
#Tradition
#Walls
There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way.
- Evan Osnos
#Back
#Funny
#Life
#Way
#Wife
Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.
- Evan Osnos
#Chinese
#Havoc
#Mythology
#Political
Although Shanghai is on the sea, it long lacked the prosperity that Hong Kong enjoyed, so while Hong Kong became known for its exotic ocean creatures, Shanghai built its diet around more commonplace river and sea fish.
- Evan Osnos
#Diet
#Fish
#Long
#River
#Sea
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