Evan Osnos Quotations

For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.

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.

Christianity is permitted under China's constitution, and the government has long supported a network of official Christian churches.

Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.

China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.

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.

China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.