Covering China Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Joseph Kahn

Joseph Kahn is the foreign editor of The New York Times. He was Beijing bureau chief at the Times between 2003 and 2007.

Nicholas Kristof

Nicholas Kristof writes op-ed columns for the New York Times. His columns have often focused on global health, poverty, and gender issues in the developing world. Since 2004, he has written dozens of columns about Darfur and visited the area eight times.

He has received two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his reporting with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, on China's Tiananmen Square democracy movement and the other for his reporting on Darfur. He has been a Times correspondent since 1984, becoming an associate managing editor and the first blogger on the New York Times Web site.

Kristof has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to 120 countries, all 50 states, every Chinese province, and every main Japanese island. Kristof and WuDunn are authors of China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power and Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia.

Elisabeth Rosenthal

Elisabeth Rosenthal writes for The New York Times specializing in epidemic disease, and scientific and environmental matters. She covered China between 1979-1981 for the Times.

Orville Schell

Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and dean at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Schell is the author of 14 books, nine of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. His most recent books are Virtual Tibet, The China Reader, and Mandate of Heaven. He is also a contributor to such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and many others. He is a fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, a senior fellow at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a recipient of the Overseas Press Club Award and the Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize for Asian Reporting.

Seymour Topping

Seymour Topping joined the Associated Press in 1948 as a foreign correspondent in China and Southeast Asia. He then joined The New York Times Company in 1959. During his tenure there, he served in multiple positions such as chief correspondent in both Moscow and Southeast Asia, foreign editor, managing editor, and director of editorial development.

Edward Wong

Edward Wong is an American journalist and a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. Wong covered the Iraq War from November 2003 through June 2007.