Evan Osnos

China's "Flying Man" is now its "Achilles." In the moments after China watched Liu Xiang, its most iconic Olympic athlete, limp away from the Games on Monday, grimacing with an...

For the past two years I've lived in a one-story house in an alley in the Beijing neighborhood named for the ancient building at its center: the Drum Tower. The...

In the 26 years she has risen through the ranks of China's religious-affairs bureaucracy, Ma Yuhong has watched a radical shift in the way an officially atheist Communist Party talks...

Laying down an ambitious route around the globe, China planned the torch relay for the 2008 Olympics to go well beyond the event's normal role as an inoffensive, symbolic reminder...

The faux revolutionary cocked her hip like a Charlie's Angel. She drew her plastic foam handgun, stepped to the foot of China's most famous bridge and giggled for a snapshot...

Most of Yu Fuqiang's assets fit on the small plastic sheet he spreads on the sidewalk. But in a country changing so fast that one year rarely resembles the last,...

Most of Yu Fuqiang's assets fit on the small plastic sheet he spreads on the sidewalk. But in a country changing so fast that one year rarely resembles the last,...

As part of Evan Osnos' blog from the road, he's answering readers' questions. Here's one: Matt asks: Do people have access to the Internet in the interior? If so, is...