The Best Reporting Experiences in China

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I feel like the piece that you capture that the best is probably my favorite piece of China related reporting. It's almost like the perfect Rorschach because it's an American reporter reporting on Chinese tourists impression of tourist Europe. I have to say there are stories that happened every once in a while where you kind of you get into a reporting experience and you're like that's kind of the platonic ideal of a reporting experience. That came about that piece as sometimes the best kind of most fun stories do in the simplest possible way which was Daniel Zaleski at the New Yorker.

Evan Osnos is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His new book is Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury.

“I'm always trying to get inside a subculture. That's the thing that I think has been the most enduring, attractive element for me. Is there a world that has its own manners and vocabulary and internal rhythms and status structure? And who looks down on whom? And why? And who venerates whom? Who's a big deal in these worlds? And if I can get into that, it doesn't even really matter to me that much what the subculture is. I'm fascinated by trying to map that thing out.”

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