Evan Osnos

The Chinese people spent the last few thousand years on foot. So today's generation has reason to regard the idea of unnecessary walking as ridiculous. "You should take the bus,"...

Kindergartners in inline skates wobbled along the concrete edge of the Yangtze. Well-dressed parents fussed behind them, within sight of but decades away from the docks and squalor where their...

Day 15: A "Portrait From the Road" with Du Kangfan, 79, who was a paratrooper in the Nationalist Party and has been separated from his family since the Chinese civil...

The bottle, that frightful red bottle, loomed from across the room. We had dreaded a night like this. We were 10 days into a trip across southwestern China, and our...

The bottle, that frightful red bottle, loomed from across the room. We had dreaded a night like this. We were 10 days into a trip across southwestern China, and our...

IN THE WEB EDITION The Sichuan Diaries: A China Journey Follow along and interact with Tribune correspondent Evan Osnos as he ventures across China's vast heartland: chicagotribune.com/chinajourney

In a new entry in Evan Osnos' blog from the road in China, he answers a question from a reader: Grace Willis from Lake Forest asks: "How does the usual...

At 82, Chen Tinggui is ready to watch one more act in a drama that has spanned her lifetime. Her tiny stone-and-wood home is different from others in this ancient...

At 82, Chen Tinggui is ready to watch one more act in a drama that has spanned her lifetime. Her tiny stone-and-wood home is different from others in this ancient...

A new "Portrait from the Road" features Liu Tianquan, who has started a bed-manufacturing business. Liu, who speaks English with a Bangladeshi accent because he used to work there, says:...