Evan Osnos Great Quotations

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

China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.

By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.

When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.