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Evan Osnos
Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Author, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Evan Osnos is a staff writer at The New Yorker, writing about foreign affairs and politics, and a fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was China correspondent for The New Yorkerfrom 2008 to 2013. Osnos was previously Beijing bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune, where he contributed to a series that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, and before that reported from the Middle East, mostly Iraq. Osnos’s book Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China won the 2014 National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has contributed to “This American Life” and the PBS series “Frontline.”
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is poised to start his second five-year term when the 19th Party Congress convenes in Beijing this fall. Under him, a new generation of leaders wi...