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When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, so it had a limited array of entertainment to provide.

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Topics: Array Beijing Came China Cultural Entertainment Had Limited Nixon Provide Revolution Richard Richard Nixon Still Winter

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The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.

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Topics: Absolute China Human Human Rights Rights Subject

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In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest, in Beijing, his aging friends resorted to donning white doctors' coats in order to slip past the guards stationed outside his home.

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Topics: Aging Arrest Beijing Chief Coats Communist Communist Party Doctors Final Former Friends Guards His Home House Life Lived Order Outside Party Past Slip White Years

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The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.

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Topics: Beijing Complexion Control Figures Government Influential Loyalty Matters Over Political Reincarnation Tibetan Way

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When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.

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Topics: China Decade First He More Nation People Photographer Rendered Than Worked

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If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

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Topics: Expectation Going Likelihood Minimal Pays Politics Punishment Remorse Where

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Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Advanced Awarded Degree Discovered Dissertation Help Included Institute Marks Mining Pages Putin Quotation Remarkably Researchers Set Single Sixteen Stolen Two Vladimir Putin

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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.

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Topics: Between Chinese Deep Demographic Devotion Driven Factors Feel Imbalance Income Income Inequality Inequality Internet Men Men And Women Political Repression Unemployment Women Young Youth

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Young Chinese, who have grown up in an age of prosperity and stability, are typically the most passionate defenders of the Chinese political and economic way.

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Topics: Age Chinese Defenders Economic Grown Most Passionate Political Prosperity Stability Up Way Who Young

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For my book, 'Age of Ambition,' I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of young Chinese strivers who are bombarded by pressures unlike those that their parents faced.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Age Ambition Among Bombarded Book Chinese Faced Other Parents Pressures Spent Things Those Time Trials Unlike Who Young

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 24th, 1976

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