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You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

~David Stern

Topics: Attitude Baking Beijing Going Having Inspire Jeremy See Shaking Shanghai Them Walk Who You Youngsters

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I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in my life. What I learned was more than I would have learned in 10 years in America or Europe, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

~Dinesh Paliwal

Topics: America Anything Assignment Beijing Did Europe Formative Four Go Learned Life More Most My Life Stayed Than Those Trade Were Would Years

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Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Ask Beijing Chinese Could Directly Flown Living Now Palace Phoenix Spy Were Why Yourself

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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Able Afford Beijing Bouncing Certain Chinese Cultures Grandparents Historic Many Moments Over Responsibilities Retire Seen States Still Took United United States Who

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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.

~Evan Osnos

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

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Beijing Charming Luxurious Places Stay Traditional

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Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Became Beijing China City Flew Half Interested Me Once Spend Studying Stunned Year

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When I lived in Beijing in 1996, it was a horizontal city. If you wanted to go out for a burger, if you wanted to really treat yourself, you went to this place called the Jianguo Hotel. The architect had proudly described it as a perfect replica of a Holiday Inn that he had seen in Palo Alto, California.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Architect Beijing Burger California City Go Had He Holiday Horizontal Hotel Inn Lived Out Perfect Place Proudly Really Seen Treat Wanted You Yourself

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As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Beijing China Made Movies Obscurity Onto Sheer Somehow Sometimes Student

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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.

~Evan Osnos

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

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