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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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The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Agency Appointment Censorship Central China Control Cut Department Distributed Editors Everything Films Newspaper Over Professors Propaganda University Way

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There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Airport Ambition Away Building China Collective East Extending Fact Far Far Away National Neighbors Out Political Putting Roads Sea See Sense Some South Tension Thing Think Way Which I Think

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I think there's a tendency, and it's an understandable tendency, to imagine that China makes decisions out of a grand strategy. The reality is that I think China today is operating, most of all, based on its domestic needs.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Based China Decisions Domestic Grand Imagine Makes Most Needs Operating Out Reality Strategy Tendency Think Today Understandable I Think

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If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Also Apparatus Book Bookstore Censorship Charge China Considered Course Critical Disruptive Get Going Government Ideas Making Means Onto Overly Published Publisher Shelves Subject Sure Then Those You

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

~Evan Osnos

Topics: About Books Buying China Chinese Large Large Numbers Non-Fiction Numbers Particularly Readers Translation

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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.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Agree Author Book Censorship Challenge China Choice Face Make Nature Order Participate Problem Publish Subject System Whether 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.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Believes China Claim Claimed Countries Other Other Countries Portion Rightful Sea South Vast Which

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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.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: After Anew Austere Building China Country Created Depth Everything Had Individuality Just Live Low Returned Returning Slowly Student Weekend Were 1970S

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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.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Almost Among Certainly China Equals First His Leader Name President Single Will

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