American - Journalist | December 24, 1976 -
We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.
Evan Osnos
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In Beijing, the joke among hacks is that, after the drive in from the airport, you are ready to write a column; after a month, you feel the stirrings of an idea-book; but after a year, you struggle to write anything at all, because you've finally discovered just how much you don't know.
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When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.
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In Beijing, we talk about air purifiers the way that teenage boys talk about cars.
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In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.
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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.
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It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire.
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Living in Beijing, writing about politically sensitive things now and then, you get used to the idea that somebody, somewhere, might be watching. But it is usually an abstract threat.
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