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For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Arduous China Could History Life Little Most Much People Travelled

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In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Beijing Beside Brick China Confucius Fifth House Important Most Moved Philosopher Temple Year

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Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Born Century China Confucius Had Sixth Socrates Stature West Who

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For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: About Broader China Companies Complaints Country Expected Foreign Hacking Interests Order Protect Publicly Violations Voice Years

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China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Analysis Central China Choice Economic Engage Greater Had Journalists Lives No Choice Our Precision Technical

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For years, American officials visiting China marvelled at how Chinese leaders could push through infrastructure projects and sweeping legislative changes without the complications of opposition and the niceties of voting.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: American Changes China Chinese Complications Could How Infrastructure Leaders Legislative Officials Opposition Projects Push Sweeping Through Visiting Voting Without Years

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When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Accustomed Beijing China Economics Fifth Great Hearing Humanity Involving Moved Politics Story Strokes Sweeping Transformation Vast Write

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By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Business Cards China Creating Identities Many New New Business Nineties Own People Printing Professional So Many People Were

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Walking, it turns out, is a sublime way to get to know people in China. They're used to meeting strangers on the road. Many here understand what it feels like to walk a long way.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: China Feels Get Here Know Like Long Long Way Many Meeting Out People Road Strangers Sublime Turns Understand Used Walk Walking Way

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For all that we can see from the road in China, there is a lot that we cannot see. We miss what's behind the trees, the cover-ups, the darker side of things - the ingredients that so often drive a reporting trip.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Behind Cannot China Darker Drive Ingredients Lot Miss Often Reporting Road See Side Things Trees Trip We Cannot

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