Biography

He is a staff writer in Beijing, China, for the New Yorker magazine where he is the China correspondent.

He graduated with high honors from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a Bachelor's Degree.

Son of Susan Osnos and Peter L. W. Osnos of Greenwich, Connecticut. Son-in-law of Ruth Nemzoff and Dr. Harris Berman of Brookline, Massachusetts.

[his introduction to China in 1996] Beijing smelled of coal and garlic and work-stained wool and cheap tobacco. In a clap-trap taxi, with the windows sealed and the heat cranked up, the smell stuck to the roof of your mouth.

[on China in 2014] China's transformation - its extraordinary economic growth, to put it in perspective - is 100 times the scale and 10 times the speed of the first industrial revolution which transformed Britain.

[thoughts on the American social landscape in the summer of 2017] What is the precise moment in the life of a country when tyranny takes place? It rarely happens in an instant; it arrives like twilight and, at first, the eyes adjust.