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

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The problem is that in order to publish a book in mainland China, you have to agree to be subject to censorship. That's the nature of the system. I don't challenge that system on its face. It's their system. But as an author, I have a choice to make whether I'll participate or I won't.

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If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.

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Topics: About Chinese Chinese People Conversation Distorted Get Go Look Media Online People Picture Social Social Media Sometimes Talking Trying Write You

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

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If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways.

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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.

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

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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.

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Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.

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Topics: Bet Calculation China Coast Could Demographics Economy Enormous Factories Farms Had He Knew Made Move People Population Put Them Who Work Would Young

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The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 24th, 1976

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