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![Surplus Intelligence by Miao Ying](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-09/220921_MIAO_YING_Surplus_Intelligence.jpg?h=60f9f39d)
What happens when you co-author a movie script with a computer? Chinese artist Miao Ying found out.
![Ms. Marvel poster](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-07/220712_Ms_Marvel_magazine_hero.jpg?h=962f5d93)
With ‘Ms. Marvel,’ Oscar winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy makes the jump to the small screen — to tell a big story.
![Janet Yang](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-06/220602_janet_yang_hero.jpg?h=170a5d20)
Groundbreaking producer Janet Yang talks about her teenage visit to Mao-era China, making movies with Spielberg, and the current state of U.S.-China cultural exchange.
![Dr. Leana Wen](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-05/LeanaWen.jpg?h=fa85429d)
The public health expert discusses her journey from childhood poverty to a career in public health — and why she doesn't shy away from controversy.
![Orville Schell stands under a propaganda billboard in Qingdao, China, in 1981.](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2021-12/211207_orville_schell_billboard.jpg?h=5f2e41ee)
Orville Schell reflects on a life spent trying to make sense of China.
![A policeman in Beijing gestures to a photographer](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2021-11/211115_alicesu_asiasocietymag.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Los Angeles Times Beijing Bureau Chief Alice Su on the challenges foreign journalists face in today’s China.
![Iran Elections 2021 Farmanesh](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2021-11/211108_farmanesh_magpiece_0.jpg?h=10d202d3)
After an unusual 2021 presidential election, Iran public opinion expert Amir Farmanesh offers a peek into the mind of the Iranian voter.
![Shipping crates at a port](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-01/caleb-russell-hoyo0xg-mlk-unsplash.jpg?h=879a21bb)
How a trade war and a pandemic have made companies think twice about where their products are made
![Fatima Bhutto in 2019](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-03/220321_fatima_bhutto.jpg?h=6723130c)
"It will be overwhelming to live through the pandemic and then have to watch it, hear it, listen to it, and read it."
![Jack Ma](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-01/F57BWX%20%281%29.jpg?h=3a062d33)
![Xi Jinping, Jiang Zemin, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-02/PhotoIllustrationbyJoanWong.jpg?h=42e40d25)
What a pair of presidential meetings tells us about two decades of fits and starts in the U.S.-China relationship.