A Quiet Intensity, Matched With Big Ambitions

In 2006, Mr. Kahn’s investigation into China’s antiquated legal system, co-written with the correspondent Jim Yardley, won a Pulitzer Prize. The next year, he married Shannon Wu, who formerly worked at the World Bank; they now live in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village with their two sons.

After returning to New York in 2008 as an editor, Mr. Kahn helped launch The Times’s Chinese-language website, a multimillion-dollar investment at a time of financial scarcity for the company. Shortly after the site launched in 2012, Mr. Kahn was part of the team of editors who decided to publish an investigation into the hidden wealth of China’s ruling class, led by the Business desk, over the strident objections of the Chinese government.