Yadan Ouyang

recovering journalist | previously @TheEconomist | words in @TheEconomist, @TheLancet, @sciencemagazine, etc. | usual caveats

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

instead of michelin stars, there should be a plastic stool index for chinese restaurants.

[Krish Raghav @krishraghav]

If you enter a restaurant in Chongqing and don't see one of these, leave immediately.

[Krish Raghav @krishraghav]

Some semi-useful lessons learned from five years in a small music company in Beijing:

1. The sites of progressive / radical values in China are not where you expect. Not all punk rockers and club heads are activists - they're just as likely to be Han supremacist nationalists.

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

@huizhong_wu An essential gadget for foreign news bureaux...

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

@krishraghav A familiar sight. 😂

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

Excellent piece by @S_Rabinovitch explaining China’s economic conundrum through the tale of a building in Chengdu. If you read only one thing today, read this one. https://t.co/bNUKog5VJk

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

The biggest story of 2018, 2019 and (probably) 2020: the US-China Cold War... Insightful piece by @tylercowen https://t.co/QXpYSDzuTp

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

Enlightening interview with @BrankoMilan on global vs national inequality and the Kuznets curve vs waves: https://t.co/LqYQ2xTx56

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

Wonder why so many Chinese cities get swamped so often? Check out my post on urban flooding in China: http://t.co/GgY8UaUQNj

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

@niubi Probably for the Sept 3 military parade. Also can't book rooms there during those days.

[Rosie Blau @RosieBlau]

Crimes of the heart (and other organs) -- China's organ #transplant industry http://t.co/S6k706c5JU @yaaadan @TheEconomist #execution

[Gady Epstein @gadyepstein]

China is trying to curb the practice of harvesting executed prisoners' organs for transplants http://t.co/kXMNYBBvvD by @yaaadan

[Jonathan Ellis @jonathanellis]

"David Carr vs. Some Guys from VICE" (from @pageonemovie) https://t.co/u7U2KUudog

What a loss.

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

Chekhov’s little-known book Sakhalin Island is "the greatest work of journalism from the 19th century" http://t.co/SXbojM8yiq HT @MargRev

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

翻两年前的笔记：杨天石认为档案的开放程度体现一个国家的现代化与民主化程度。人民有研究历史的权利。如不公开，则政党始终处于蒙昧阶段。他说，从江西反AB团，到延安抢救运动，再到文革抓516，都是因为没能从历史中汲取教训。

[Gady Epstein @gadyepstein]

In China, corruption in scientific research is an under-appreciated obstacle to innovation: http://t.co/ak6CEfEZTq Good piece by @yaaadan

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

My story this week on the high price of drugs in China: http://t.co/61b5FNeEqH

[17A @SnowdensSeat]

I feel empty.

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

「残忍与罪恶拔地而起， 像金字塔一样辉煌。 而生命崩溃如深渊， 听不到一丝回响。」

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

My belated story in the Lancet this week on the Sichuan earthquake and China's emergency response system. http://t.co/cIiDgHxVJR

[Yadan Ouyang @yaaadan]

2/2 陈嘉映：目的或理想面对的并非一个泛泛的现实，而是具体的制度、人脉、规则、惯习。待你学会了在所有这些之中把事情做成的时候，你的理想连同你自己无可逃避地被改变了。你很少面对该坚持理想还是作出妥协这样的大选择，改变发生在难以察觉的毫厘之间。