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Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism. — Evan Osnos

I can tell you, going out to buy toilet paper in the U.S. is a completely predictable experience. — Evan Osnos

The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire. — Evan Osnos

THE PAST DOES NOT EQUAL THE FUTURE. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. CREATE MIRACLES. — Evan Osnos

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

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology. — Evan Osnos

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

When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air. — Evan Osnos

It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire. — Evan Osnos

The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt. — Evan Osnos

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

The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements. — Evan Osnos

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

Christianity is permitted under China's constitution, and the government has long supported a network of official Christian churches. — Evan Osnos

Hope is like a path in the countryside: originally there was no path, but once people begin to pass, a way appears. — Evan Osnos

He has held on to certain ideals, like democracy and freedom, that made a deep impression on him - things inherited from the Cold War era, — Evan Osnos

Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole. — Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition. — Evan Osnos

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

Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics. — Evan Osnos

Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic. — Evan Osnos

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

When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor. — Evan Osnos

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian. — Evan Osnos

'419 scams,' named for a clause from the Nigerian penal code, are such a part of the white noise of the digital age that we no longer notice them. — Evan Osnos

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal. — Evan Osnos

Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts. — Evan Osnos

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation. — Evan Osnos

In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all. — Evan Osnos

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism. — Evan Osnos

I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are. — Evan Osnos

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

I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working. — Evan Osnos

If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways. — Evan Osnos

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter. — Evan Osnos

Valuing the road over the goal was a Taoist goal in itself. — Evan Osnos

In Beijing, we talk about air purifiers the way that teenage boys talk about cars. — Evan Osnos

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

China's Communist Party is wary of independent-minded movements. — Evan Osnos

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