I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.
From Evan Osnos
For years, American officials visiting China marvelled at how Chinese leaders could push through infrastructure projects and sweeping legislative changes without the complications of opposition and the niceties of voting.
To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.
When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.
Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.
The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire.
By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards.
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