The Making of Xi Jinping
Evan Osnos writes about international affairs for The New Yorker. On the occasion of a recent profile, we’re speaking about the “ruthlessly pragmatic”...
Postcards from China
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A series of podcast conversations recorded in Shanghai and Beijing by Christopher Lydon in 2014.
Can China Lead?
The People’s Republic has arrived and is applying for co-trusteeship of the globe. We got a good look at the co-trustee, China’s enigmatic president X...
At Peking University: the Rising Generation
What I went least prepared for was the openness of Chinese people in what we call a closed society. So the last audio postcard from this trip is a 10-...
Ai Weiwei, China’s Artist/Enemy #1
Not perhaps since Alexander Solzhenitsyn in the Soviet Gulag has there been a dissenting artist who got to be as famous as the government that hounds ...
China Rising
China is in its own gilded age, says The New Yorker writer Evan Osnos, into a second generation of ultra-modern tech, a still-developing country brist...
Peter Hessler’s New China: Is this any way to live?
Peter Hessler, covering the new China for The New Yorker, made himself the rising star of the John McPhee school of reporting. It’s not just that he’d...