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
Christianity is permitted under China's constitution, and the government has long supported a network of official Christian churches. Evan Osnos chinachristianchristianity 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
In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all. Evan Osnos chinesedescribeimpressive Change image and share on social
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 1970s1990sanew share on social
There's a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It's because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population. Evan Osnos attentionattractbroad share on social
There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a true story in Saudi Arabia. It was about a public execution for adultery. And when the movie was aired on British television, the Saudi government threatened to cut off oil exports and to cut off diplomatic relations. Evan Osnos adulteryairarabia share on social
The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women. Evan Osnos chinesedeepdemographic share on social