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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

Today People Dams Hundred Collapse Thousand Rarely Cascade Names Discussed Victims Chinese Event Flood Largely

By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's. Evan Osnos

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

Mine Like Years Tragic Being Chinese Epic Coal Novel

There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way. Evan Osnos

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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

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad. Evan Osnos

Spent Abroad Years Overseas

It's worth being clear - you know, I think that the ideas that somebody like Richard Spencer endorses and that other members of the self-identified white nationalist groups endorse - those ideas really are repellent to most people. Evan Osnos

Immigration, of course, in New Hampshire is - it's not something that you see every day. It's not like talking about it in Texas, where people have a much more explicit sense of it. Evan Osnos

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

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

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

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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

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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

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

Extraordinarily Late States Corrupt Course Century United United States

More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached a pivotal moment. To date, even as China has become more powerful and present in our lives, Americans have generally found it to be an unsatisfying 'enemy.' Evan Osnos

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The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China's growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks. Evan Osnos

World Power Those Must Between New Fair Like South Reflections Contribution Controversial Banks China Sea Growing Differentiate

Analysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much time questioning one another's biases and loyalties that they have even settled on two opposing categories: 'panda huggers' versus 'panda sluggers.' Evan Osnos

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

Strange Living Abroad How Encounter Foreigners Regard Interest Places

I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials. Evan Osnos

War History Too Visible Find Memorials Trace Expect American Dwell Much Vietnam Vietnamese Away Museums

At the age of eighty, the Dalai Lama has begun to discuss a range of prospects for the future disposition of his soul. Traditionally, after he dies, a search party of senior monks would set out to locate his new incarnation, who is most often a boy toddler, who goes on to be trained as a monk and a leader. Evan Osnos

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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

Politics Expectation Punishment Minimal Remorse Likelihood Going Where Pays

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