Beijing has a glut of charming and traditional or brash and luxurious places to stay.
EVAN OSNOS At the age of eighty, the Dalai Lama has begun to discuss a range of prospects for the future dispos...
EVAN OSNOS To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.
EVAN OSNOS In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one t...
EVAN OSNOS The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing...
EVAN OSNOS When I lived in Beijing in 1996, it was a horizontal city. If you wanted to go out for a burger, if ...
EVAN OSNOS By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of ...
EVAN OSNOS Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help o...
EVAN OSNOS Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritaria...
EVAN OSNOS When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individual...
EVAN OSNOS If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subjec...
EVAN OSNOS Analysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much ti...
EVAN OSNOS If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage the...
EVAN OSNOS Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used ...
EVAN OSNOS For my book, 'Age of Ambition,' I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of ...
EVAN OSNOS There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a tru...
EVAN OSNOS When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.
EVAN OSNOS To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online...
EVAN OSNOS In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news...
EVAN OSNOS Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and i...
EVAN OSNOS Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party ...
EVAN OSNOS In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of...
EVAN OSNOS Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numb...
EVAN OSNOS The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin...
EVAN OSNOS Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-ag...
EVAN OSNOS I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are to...
EVAN OSNOS Like most markets, Da Jing is most alive just after dawn, when the elementary-school children in the...
EVAN OSNOS More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached ...
EVAN OSNOS Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enorm...
EVAN OSNOS We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they use...
EVAN OSNOS China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride i...
EVAN OSNOS Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation&#...
EVAN OSNOS By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities tha...
EVAN OSNOS '419 scams,' named for a clause from the Nigerian penal code, are such a part of the white n...
EVAN OSNOS A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist symp...
EVAN OSNOS Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.
EVAN OSNOS Although Shanghai is on the sea, it long lacked the prosperity that Hong Kong enjoyed, so while Hong...
EVAN OSNOS By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita...
EVAN OSNOS I can tell you, going out to buy toilet paper in the U.S. is a completely predictable experience.
EVAN OSNOS There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would sa...
EVAN OSNOS In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arre...
EVAN OSNOS Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame o...
EVAN DAVIS I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and...
EVAN DAUGHERTY I'm a gun owner and strong supporter of the Second Amendment.
EVAN MCMULLIN There is real value in sharing moments that don't live forever.
EVAN SPIEGEL For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interv...
EVAN DAVIS If there is anyone who should not be trusted with regard to intelligence, it is Donald Trump, both i...
EVAN MCMULLIN We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. H...
EVAN DAVIS You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a...
EVAN BAYH I believe Donald Trump is a bona fide authoritarian. I am deeply concerned that if he were president...
EVAN MCMULLIN We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they...
EVAN WRIGHT I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I ...
EVAN PETERS It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I...
EVAN PETERS 'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blog...
EVAN WILLIAMS My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more informatio...
EVAN WILLIAMS Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we ...
EVAN DAVIS Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
EVAN ESAR Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
EVAN ESAR Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
EVAN ESAR The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
EVAN ESAR Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
EVAN ESAR Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
EVAN ESAR Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different...
EVAN ESAR Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won'...
EVAN ESAR Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awa...
EVAN DAVIS We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.
EVAN BAYH Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a s...
EVAN BAYH For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resor...
EVAN DAVIS Technology businesses in general are susceptible to hacking. That's why you have to work really,...
EVAN SPIEGEL When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with...
EVAN SPIEGEL Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailer...
EVAN DAVIS Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerosp...
EVAN DAVIS It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to...
EVAN PARKER My father, Birch Bayh, represented Indiana in the Senate from 1963 to 1981. A progressive, he noneth...
EVAN BAYH A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are hig...
EVAN WILLIAMS Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
EVAN ESAR It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using differen...
EVAN GLODELL We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.
EVAN DAVIS It's never too late to do the right thing, and America deserves much better than either Donald T...
EVAN MCMULLIN Mitt Romney is a true Mormon. John Edwards and Bill Clinton are not real Mormons. It was not 'Br...
EVAN SAYET Any time a president is re-elected, he has a little more political clout to get things done.
EVAN BAYH The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near oth...
EVAN DAVIS I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in ...
EVAN BAYH I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to t...
EVAN DAVIS I actually put peanut butter on my bagel. I really like peanut butter and I like to ruin the bagel. ...
EVAN PETERS Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evo...
EVAN DAVIS Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics ...
EVAN DAVIS Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assu...
EVAN DAVIS We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reaso...
EVAN DAVIS But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, a...
EVAN DAVIS Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
EVAN DANDO Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, characte...
EVAN DAVIS The United States depends on South Korea and Japan to help promote American values in East Asia.
EVAN BAYH One of the things I'm trying to get better at is apologizing when I make mistakes. That's be...
EVAN SPIEGEL On the matter - on the issue of life, it's life. So I actually would pursue appointment, court a...
EVAN MCMULLIN I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage....
EVAN WILLIAMS Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting...
EVAN SAYET I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy.
EVAN GOLDBERG It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for grant...
EVAN DAVIS I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.
EVAN SPIEGEL A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-exp...
EVAN DAVIS I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attrac...
EVAN WILLIAMS Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies tha...
EVAN WILLIAMS The social marketing teams of big companies will always figure out a way to advertise on Snapchat. I...
EVAN SPIEGEL Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.
EVAN DAUGHERTY I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic al...
EVAN PETERS Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
EVAN ESAR Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
EVAN ESAR a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.
EVAN MEEKINS Hillary Clinton is a corrupt career politician who has recklessly handled classified information in ...
EVAN MCMULLIN The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreig...
EVAN BAYH We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the wo...
EVAN SPIEGEL It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is temp...
EVAN DAVIS I went to a Christian all-boys' college one time to pick up my buddies so we could go play baseb...
EVAN GOLDBERG I guess creepy comes natural to me - I hate to say that.
EVAN PETERS Massive debts owed to foreign creditors weaken our global influence and threaten high inflation and ...
EVAN BAYH Ephemeral should be the default.
EVAN SPIEGEL It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are im...
EVAN SPIEGEL I don't want to disrupt anything. We never conceive of our products as disruptive - we don't...
EVAN SPIEGEL When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things....
EVAN WILLIAMS I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the dr...
EVAN DAUGHERTY After 'Divergent,' I got a job rewriting a sci-fi script at Paramount. I think they really l...
EVAN DAUGHERTY Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that co...
EVAN PARKER We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean peop...
EVAN BAYH People are fans of Dunkin' Donuts. They have a relationship with the company, they go there ever...
EVAN WILLIAMS At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.
EVAN SAYET Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expe...
EVAN BAYH The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we do...
EVAN SPIEGEL Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis s...
EVAN ESAR Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
EVAN ESAR It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration.
EVAN ANDERSON I didn't know much about it. Actually, I didn't know anything. My grade school coach, Alden Dahl, he...
EVAN ANDERSON I've got a 6-4 cousin, but that's about it.
EVAN ANDERSON Yes, it's not many people from there.
EVAN ANDERSON As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplu...
EVAN BAYH Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete somethin...
EVAN SPIEGEL Online one day, you log in, and you realise, 'This is not me.' Everything you're posting...
EVAN SPIEGEL See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million diff...
EVAN DANDO There are lots of different ideas, lots of different opinions about the First Amendment Defense Act ...
EVAN MCMULLIN The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the b...
EVAN DAVIS Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mai...
EVAN DAVIS Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it
EVAN ESAR Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
EVAN ESAR Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
EVAN ESAR It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all ov...
EVAN ESAR You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and de...
EVAN ESAR The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
EVAN ESAR Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
EVAN ESAR Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
EVAN ESAR Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
EVAN ESAR Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
EVAN ESAR All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
EVAN ESAR A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
EVAN ESAR A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.
EVAN ESAR Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
EVAN DAVIS Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
EVAN DAVIS America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional ...
EVAN ESAR Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you s...
EVAN ESAR On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; T...
EVAN LEIBOVITCH All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy -- a Jill a rich widow.
EVAN ESAR Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.
EVAN DANDO Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an env...
EVAN SPIEGEL After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and...
EVAN WILLIAMS In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: ...
EVAN DAVIS There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree o...
EVAN DAVIS The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.
EVAN WILLIAMS To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding," Senato...
EVAN BAYH Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland. ... The t...
EVAN BAYH A period of introspection is appropriate after a tough political loss, but we've got to move beyond ...
EVAN BAYH Many Americans wonder if we're willing to use force to defend the country even under the most compel...
EVAN BAYH Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can st...
EVAN BAYH Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good...
EVAN BAYH The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use ...
EVAN SPIEGEL My church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, puts Jesus Christ at the focal point. It...
EVAN MCMULLIN Of course, it's a matter of courtesy,
EVAN BAYH Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign count...
EVAN BAYH All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two...
EVAN DAVIS A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If y...
EVAN DAUGHERTY Sometimes, it takes leaving to gain some perspective. I see that clearly every time I leave Washingt...
EVAN BAYH The United States must not allow North Korea to exacerbate tensions between our key strategic allies...
EVAN BAYH When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the ...
EVAN DAVIS Donald Trump, despite his campaign promises, this is not a guy who is going to be willing to send ex...
EVAN MCMULLIN Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's do...
EVAN BAYH We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private ind...
EVAN BAYH Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If th...
EVAN SPIEGEL Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.
EVAN SAYET I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecur...
EVAN DANDO Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone...
EVAN DAVIS My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim ...
EVAN BAYH For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
EVAN DANDO Jessica Lange is a sweetheart, the nicest lady in the world. She has a Poodle named Jack.
EVAN PETERS And I love Jennifer Lawrence. She's a total fox. And such a good actress. It's ridiculous.
EVAN PETERS Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz m...
EVAN PARKER I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
EVAN PARKER Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy
EVAN THOMAS I said, 'I'm sorry, Mom, I've got to go to the bathroom,'
EVAN BAYH The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had ...
EVAN SPIEGEL I can't say which of the writers inspired me the most, but it was probably Hemingway.
EVAN HUNTER I got a B.A. from Hunter College, worked as a school teacher, a lobster salesman, and a literary age...
EVAN HUNTER Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. W...
EVAN HUNTER