“If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.”

American journalist and author

Evan Lionel Richard Osnos is an American journalist and author. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008, and is known for reporting on politics and foreign affairs, especially in the United States and China. Since 2016, he has also written about the world’s wealthiest individuals. His 2014 book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, won the National Book Award for nonfiction.