please welcome evan osnos. [applause] >> thank you very much to david for that, the very kind introduction, and thank you to all of you. you've heard this from other authors, but i have to tell you, it is a special pleasure to be here with people who choose to be inside on a beautiful day to talk about books. youpl are self-selecting, and we are an endangered species, and i thank you for coming here together. i think thered are, i'm guessin, a lot of people in this room who are interested, as i am, in theh subject of china. and what it means for all of us. on thise side of the world. for me, well, and if you want to know what it actually feels like to be be a writer in china, it's useful to remember an observation by john king fairbanks who's one of the great american china scholars, started the program at harvard. and fairbanks said, and i quote, china is a journalist's dream and a statistician's nightmare because, he said, it has morear human drama and fewer verifiable facts per square mile than anywhere else

>> and it is my pleasure to , a introduce our guest for thisis m program, evan osnos. evan was born in 1976 and is a staff writer for "the new writer for yorker" as well as april at the brooking ts institution. he writes about fort affairs and politics. is the author of "age of fo ambition: chasing fortune, truth and faith in the newrt china." and the wonderful work one to 2014 national book award. it is the fruit of evidence eight years of living and working in beijing. in the book he traces the rise of the individual in china and the clash between aspiration and authoritarianism. authoritarianism. he had this to say, and the pages of the new yorker evan oz knows has portrayed, explained, and poked fun at the state china better than any other writer from the leicester east eliminating the gilded age, appetite, challenges, and dilemmas in a way thatew ve do in the way you have done. also is a contributor to this american life on public radio and frontline. before moving to the new yorker he was a beijing bureau chief for the chicago tribune we contributed to a series t

evan osnos, your book is fascinating. i just started a book on pain and this seems to me to be one of the major movers in that century past. the we have taken chinese from a populist nation to considerable wealth and naturally they are growing. my main concern, and question for you is, how do we of college, because there is all kind of noise about how we have to worry about china because they're becoming a major power, how do we get along peacefully? it seems like the biggest news to -- >> host: thank you very much. >> guest: agreed question and it is on a lot of our minds these days. some of this almost feels like there is the self-fulfilling prophecy. if we imagine china will be our raw avalanche enemy in the world that will become one and i think there is the real risk in some ways that and we talk about this relationship that we assume the competition between two great powers is impossible and you hear about in the united states and in china people talking about a pattern of history, the great historian who notice whe

at 7:45, evan osnos takes a look at the future of china and its impact on the world.sman alan west talks about his book, "guardian of the republic." at 9 p.m., o'reilly factor host bill o'reilly discusses the reagan presidency following the assassination attempt with bay buchanan. then at 10 eastern, greg grandin's new book, kissinger's shadow. and then coming up at 11, a collection of firsthand accounts from holocaust survivors by anthony pitch. that all happens next on c-span2's booktv. but first, damon tweedy on race in america. [inaudible conversations] >> so welcome, everybody. so i'm, my name is damon tweedy,