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Evan Osnos

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

December 24, 1976

Website

http://www.evanosnos.com

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Genre

Nonfiction, Travel, Memoir

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Evan Osnos joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. He is a correspondent in Washington, D.C. who writes about politics and foreign affairs. He is the author of "Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, May 2014). Based on eight years of living in Beijing, the book traces the rise of the individual in China, and the clash between aspiration and authoritarianism. He was the China Correspondent at The New Yorker magazine from 2008 to 2013. He is a contributor to This American Life on public radio, and Frontline, the PBS series. Prior to The New Yorker, he worked as the Beijing bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune, where he contributed to a series that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize ...more

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Average rating: 4.25 · 6,270 ratings · 668 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China 4.25 avg rating — 6,261 ratings — published 2014 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy by Michael J. Sandel (Editor), Paul J. D'Ambrosio (Editor) , Evan Osnos (Foreword) 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To survive in China you must reveal nothing to others. Or it could be used against you … That’s why I’ve come to think the deepest part of the self is best left unclear. Like mist and clouds in a Chinese landscape painting, hide the private part behind your social persona. Let your public self be like rice in a dinner: bland and inconspicuous, taking on the flavors of its surroundings while giving off no flavor of its own.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

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“Hope is like a path in the countryside: originally there was no path, but once people begin to pass, a way appears.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

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“It is more difficult to choke the mouth of the people than to block the flow of a river.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

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