{"id":3721,"date":"2021-01-02T15:33:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T15:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2021-01-02T15:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T15:33:05","slug":"evan-osnos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=3721","title":{"rendered":"Evan Osnos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Like others his age, Tang Jie lived largely online. When the riots erupted in Lhasa in March, he followed the news closely on American and European news sites, in addition to China&#8217;s official media. He had no hesitation about tunneling under the government firewall. He used a proxy server\u2014a digital way station overseas that connected a user with a blocked website. He watched television exclusively online, because it had more variety and he didn\u2019t have a TV in his room. He also received foreign news clips from Chinese students abroad, a population that has grown by nearly two-thirds in the previous decade to some sixty- seven thousand people. Tang was baffled that foreigners might imagine that people of his generation were somehow unwise to the distortions of censorship. \u201cBecause we are in such a system, we are always asking ourselves whether we are brainwashed,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are always eager to get other information from different channels.\u201d Then he added, \u201cBut when you are in a so-called free system you never think about whether you are brainwashed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Evan Osnos, <em>Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China<\/em>, New York, 2014, p. 138<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like others his age, Tang Jie lived largely online. When the riots erupted in Lhasa in March, he followed the news closely on American and European news sites, in addition to China&#8217;s official media. He had no hesitation about tunneling under the government firewall. He used a proxy server\u2014a digital way station overseas that connected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2368],"tags":[2369,2370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3722,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}