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“The greatest difference between Internet dating in America and in China was conceptual: in America, it had the power to expand your universe of potential mates; in China, a nation of 1.3 billion people, online dating promised to do the opposite.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

“In a series of experiments, they found that Chinese investors overwhelmingly described themselves as more cautious than Americans. But when they were tested—with a series of hypothetical financial decisions—the stereotype proved wrong, and the Chinese were found to take consistently larger risks than Americans of comparable wealth.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

“Liang Qichao, one of China’s leading reformers of the early twentieth century, hailed the importance of the individual in national development, but renounced that view after he visited San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1903 and concluded that the competition between separate Chinese clans and families was preventing Chinese people from prospering. “If we were to adopt a democratic system of government now,” he wrote, “it would be nothing less than committing national suicide.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

“We spoke in Chinese, but when he was surprised, he’d say, “Oh, my Lady Gaga!,” an English expression he’d picked up at school.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China