Evan Osnos

China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.

In 2007, as a condition for hosting the Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government removed restrictions barring Beijing-based journalists from leaving the capital without prior written permission.

It's worth being clear - you know, I think that the ideas that somebody like Richard Spencer endorses and that other members of the self-identified white nationalist groups endorse - those ideas really are repellent to most people.

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.

More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached a pivotal moment. To date, even as China has become more powerful and present in our lives, Americans have generally found it to be an unsatisfying 'enemy.'

The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women.

Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.

In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest, in Beijing, his aging friends resorted to donning white doctors' coats in order to slip past the guards stationed outside his home.

I can tell you, going out to buy toilet paper in the U.S. is a completely predictable experience.

There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way.

For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.