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In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of step. It is a splendid jumble of centuries, full of sizzling pot stickers and bleating cell phones, pungent rice wine and bullfrogs as plump as softballs.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Cell Cell Phones Centuries City Full Market New Out Phones Pot Rice Road Splendid Step Street Wine Worships

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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.

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Topics: Barely Blocks Breathing Cuisine Distinguished Education Few Little Living Long Market More Narrow Sauce Shanghai Six Soy Street Style Sugar Than Thick Visitor

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Like most markets, Da Jing is most alive just after dawn, when the elementary-school children in their uniforms and bright red kerchiefs set off through narrow streets, marking the start of another frenzied day of commerce.

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Topics: After Alive Another Bright Children Commerce Dawn Day Just Like Markets Marking Most Narrow Off Red Set Start Streets Through Uniforms

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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.

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Topics: Although Around Became Built Commonplace Creatures Diet Enjoyed Exotic Fish Hong Kong Known Kong Long More Ocean Prosperity River Sea Shanghai While

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We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Binge Court Decisions Hazards Instant Knowledge Learning Readers Supreme Supreme Court Than Used

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In Beijing, the joke among hacks is that, after the drive in from the airport, you are ready to write a column; after a month, you feel the stirrings of an idea-book; but after a year, you struggle to write anything at all, because you've finally discovered just how much you don't know.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: After Airport Among Anything Because Beijing Column Discovered Drive Feel Finally How How Much Joke Just Know Month Much Ready Struggle Write Year You

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When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Air Beijing Gain Live Tuned Understanding While You

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In Beijing, we talk about air purifiers the way that teenage boys talk about cars.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: About Air Beijing Boy Car Talk Teenage Way

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In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Chinese Describe Impressive Nothing Number Saying Ways

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Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Adjustment Arts Bureaucrats Centuries Chinese Dark Days Deliver Delivered Emptiness Extent Often Over Recite Speeches

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 24th, 1976

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