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 advanceawardbrooking share on social
I can tell you, going out to buy toilet paper in the U.S. is a completely predictable experience. Evan Osnos buycompletelyexperience Change image and share on social
In Beijing, we talk about air purifiers the way that teenage boys talk about cars. Evan Osnos airbeijingboy Change image and share on social
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 adjustmentartbureaucrat share on social
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 beijingbrickchina Change image and share on social
I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working. Evan Osnos daygovernmentoctober Change image and share on social
If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media. Evan Osnos chineseconversationdistort Change image and share on social
Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers. Evan Osnos bookbuychina Change image and share on social
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 chinacoverdark share on social
In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today. Evan Osnos cascadechinesecollapse share on social
