Christina Larson is an award-winning foreign correspondent and science journalist based in Beijing, and a former Foreign Policy editor. She has reported from nearly a dozen countries in Asia. Her features have appeared in the New York Times, Wired, Science, Scientific American, the Atlantic, and other publications. In 2016, she won the Overseas Press Club of America’s Morton Frank Award for international magazine writing.
Mourners pray for the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej during the procession transferring the relics and his ashes from the Grand Palace to a local temple in Bangkok on Oct. 29. (Ye Aung/AFP/Getty Images)
Facebook chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a "town-hall" meeting at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi on October 28, 2015. (Money Sharma/AFP/Getty Images)
ANXIAN COUNTY, CHINA - AUGUST 24: (CHINA OUT) A mental patient, who suffers from schizophrenia caused by the Sichuan earthquake, lies in bed with arms and legs being bound at the Anxian Mental Hospital on August 24, 2008 in Anxian County of Sichuan Province, China. The building of the hospital has collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake and 95 patients have moved into temporary houses. Mental diseases of some patients were caused by the May 12 earthquake. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
