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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.

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Topics: Ambition Barriers Behind Beijing City Core Down Draw Gardens Great Great Wall Homes Intrigues Only Series Sunlight Tradition Wall Walls

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To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

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Topics: Conformity Confucius Consensus Harmony Loyal Opposition Required

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Beijing has a glut of charming and traditional or brash and luxurious places to stay.

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Topics: Beijing Charming Luxurious Places Stay Traditional

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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.

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Topics: Age Author His Intentional Mistakes Mystery Only Other Otherwise Own Plagiarism Political Protect Real Software Stories

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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.

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Topics: Born Chinese Classics Confucius Him His Ideas Idiosyncrasies Kong Made Master Means Power Which

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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.

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Topics: Africa Average China Chinese Chinese People Income Koreans Mean North People Poorer Sub-Saharan Than Third Were Year Your

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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.

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Topics: Back Buy China Come Deep Funny Go Happened Interesting Life Out Paper Revealing Say Something Thrilling Toilet Toilet Paper Underlying Unpredictability Way Wife Would You

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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.

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Topics: American American Dream Anymore Dead Despair Donald Donald Trump Dream He Loss Mantra Says Trump Used Victories

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Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

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Topics: After China Emerged Facing Greatest Imperialism Leadership Nation Second Second World War Seventy Skepticism Threat War World World War Years

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Analysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much time questioning one another's biases and loyalties that they have even settled on two opposing categories: 'panda huggers' versus 'panda sluggers.'

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Topics: Analyst Another Biases Business Business People Categories China Diplomats Even Involved Journalists Much Opposing People Questioning Scholars Settled So Much Time Spend Time Two Versus

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 24th, 1976

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