Emily Feng
@emilyzfeng.bsky.social
NPR correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Now DC-based. My book "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom" is now out: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724947/let-only-red-flowers-bloom-by-emily-feng/
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How one group is turning mushroom's bioelectricity into music one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5606...
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I’m honored my book Let Only Flowers Bloom is a notable book of the year from the @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
50 notable works of nonfiction from 2025
The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I’m honored my book Let Only Flowers Bloom is a notable book of the year from the @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
“We can’t stress enough how abnormal this is for an
economy of any significant size,” noted economist Jonathan Anderson in a report this year.” www.ft.com/content/5b9e...
economy of any significant size,” noted economist Jonathan Anderson in a report this year.” www.ft.com/content/5b9e...
The growing problem with China’s unreliable numbers
Beijing’s GDP figures have drawn scrutiny for years but the questions have become more acute
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November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“We can’t stress enough how abnormal this is for an
economy of any significant size,” noted economist Jonathan Anderson in a report this year.” www.ft.com/content/5b9e...
economy of any significant size,” noted economist Jonathan Anderson in a report this year.” www.ft.com/content/5b9e...
'“He is the liberal gentleman, coming from the civilised, wealthy, modernised, free world – but from China, this time, rather than the United States or the United Kingdom.” The old vantage points fall away." www.equator.org/articles/kin...
King of the Aral Sea • EQUATOR
A Central Asian travelogue
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November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
'“He is the liberal gentleman, coming from the civilised, wealthy, modernised, free world – but from China, this time, rather than the United States or the United Kingdom.” The old vantage points fall away." www.equator.org/articles/kin...
Syria's foreign minister is visiting Beijing today. A top issue during his meeting earlier with Wang Yi was the presence of Uyghur fighters in Syria.
Contrary to reports, Syria has said emphatically today that it will not deport the Uyghurs to China.
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Contrary to reports, Syria has said emphatically today that it will not deport the Uyghurs to China.
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Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning’s Regular Press Conference on November 17, 2025
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November 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Syria's foreign minister is visiting Beijing today. A top issue during his meeting earlier with Wang Yi was the presence of Uyghur fighters in Syria.
Contrary to reports, Syria has said emphatically today that it will not deport the Uyghurs to China.
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Contrary to reports, Syria has said emphatically today that it will not deport the Uyghurs to China.
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“Over half of all those displaced are under the age of 18,” Fletcher said. “I challenge anyone who is boasting about aid cuts to come here and speak to these people.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Sudan’s lost children wander through a landscape of death
Around 200 unaccompanied children have arrived in the Sudanese town of Tewila after escaping El Fashir, where RSF fighters have carried out mass killings.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“Over half of all those displaced are under the age of 18,” Fletcher said. “I challenge anyone who is boasting about aid cuts to come here and speak to these people.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department. n.pr/4qVulQV
Alaska station that covered devastating storm cuts jobs
A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department. n.pr/4qVulQV
In the 1970s, National Public Radio, with generous funding from the N.E.H., staged a yearlong series of three-hour Saturday-morning call-in programs called the “American Issues Radio Forum.” .lhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/what-was-the-american-revolution-for
What Was the American Revolution For?
Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
In the 1970s, National Public Radio, with generous funding from the N.E.H., staged a yearlong series of three-hour Saturday-morning call-in programs called the “American Issues Radio Forum.” .lhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/what-was-the-american-revolution-for
“That muscular facade is punctured here in China, where despair about dimming economic and personal prospects is pervasive.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...
Opinion | China Looks Strong. Life Here Tells a Different Story.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
“That muscular facade is punctured here in China, where despair about dimming economic and personal prospects is pervasive.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...
On Here and Now with the fab Scott Tong to talk broadly about transnational repression and economic coercion globally www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Cancelled Chinese film festival in New York latest example of Beijing pressure campaign, says organizer
A film festival showing movies that are hard to see outside China went dark after many of the directors who were supposed to take part suddenly backed out.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
On Here and Now with the fab Scott Tong to talk broadly about transnational repression and economic coercion globally www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
The case of She Zhijiang could have been lifted from the pages of a spy thriller - and in fact, She claims he was a spy for China.
Beijing tried to extradite him...now Thailand has complied, the day before the Thai king visit to China.
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Beijing tried to extradite him...now Thailand has complied, the day before the Thai king visit to China.
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Tycoon gambling suspect extradited to China for trial
Police took dual Chinese-Cambodian national She Zhijiang from Klong Prem Central Prison in Bangkok to Suvarnabhumi airport on Wednesday for extradition to China and trial on online gambling charges.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The case of She Zhijiang could have been lifted from the pages of a spy thriller - and in fact, She claims he was a spy for China.
Beijing tried to extradite him...now Thailand has complied, the day before the Thai king visit to China.
www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...
Beijing tried to extradite him...now Thailand has complied, the day before the Thai king visit to China.
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First came the call from his own parents. Then dozens of cancellations came pouring in.
How the director of an inaugural film festival in New York City...came under pressure from China to cancel the festival in the U.S.
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How the director of an inaugural film festival in New York City...came under pressure from China to cancel the festival in the U.S.
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Film festival organizer cancels event, citing pressure from China's government
The director of a Chinese-language film festival in New York City says he's been forced to cancel the event because of pressure from the Chinese government on the films' directors.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
First came the call from his own parents. Then dozens of cancellations came pouring in.
How the director of an inaugural film festival in New York City...came under pressure from China to cancel the festival in the U.S.
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How the director of an inaugural film festival in New York City...came under pressure from China to cancel the festival in the U.S.
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Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
In a decade-long operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in an attempt to weaken the potency of the country’s opium crop.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Just finished part 1 and part 2 of this very moving, 10-year long saga @quillawrence.bsky.social has been reporting with a U.S. war vet
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Carlson’s War: Part 1 : Up First from NPR
What does it mean to live through war? And can someone who’s experienced
war ever get over it? These are questions NPR’s Quil Lawrence has been
asking himself for years. A decade ago, Lawrence did a...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just finished part 1 and part 2 of this very moving, 10-year long saga @quillawrence.bsky.social has been reporting with a U.S. war vet
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Sharing from a colleague on today's Veterans' Day: an old interview about a very moving film on her father, a Vietnam vet, and the PSTD he was burdened with
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A Daughter Explores Her Father's PTSD, From Vietnam Until Today
NPR's Kara Frame traces her father's PTSD, and those of his Army comrades, back to a terrible battle in Vietnam. In a short documentary film, she also explores the impact it's had on their families.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Sharing from a colleague on today's Veterans' Day: an old interview about a very moving film on her father, a Vietnam vet, and the PSTD he was burdened with
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Terrible news...I love this museum and found great joy in visiting at the end of long reporting trips this year in Syria.
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Thieves steal ancient Roman-era statues from Syria's national museum
Officials say thieves have broken into Syria's national museum in Damascus and stolen several ancient statues from the Roman era.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Terrible news...I love this museum and found great joy in visiting at the end of long reporting trips this year in Syria.
apnews.com/article/syri...
apnews.com/article/syri...
Great to be at University of Chicago on such a fine fall day before the first snows
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Great to be at University of Chicago on such a fine fall day before the first snows
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For decades, Tibetans built a capital in exile in Dharamshala, India, and sent their kids to a school founded by the Dalai Lama. That's now changing.
The Dalai Lama created a Tibetan capital in exile in India. It's shrinking
For decades, Tibetans built a capital in exile in Dharamshala, India, and sent their kids to a school founded by the Dalai Lama. That's now changing.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
For decades, Tibetans built a capital in exile in Dharamshala, India, and sent their kids to a school founded by the Dalai Lama. That's now changing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/b...
"In 1976, Song Ying swam for eight hours from Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, to Hong Kong...
Today, at 72, she is a New Yorker who voted for President Trump three times and voted early for Andrew M. Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral election."
"In 1976, Song Ying swam for eight hours from Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, to Hong Kong...
Today, at 72, she is a New Yorker who voted for President Trump three times and voted early for Andrew M. Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral election."
In Chinese American Families, There’s a Generational Split on Mamdani
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November 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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"In 1976, Song Ying swam for eight hours from Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, to Hong Kong...
Today, at 72, she is a New Yorker who voted for President Trump three times and voted early for Andrew M. Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral election."
"In 1976, Song Ying swam for eight hours from Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, to Hong Kong...
Today, at 72, she is a New Yorker who voted for President Trump three times and voted early for Andrew M. Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral election."
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this is the best story I've ever read on what it's like working (as a PRC citizen) in state media in China, and also extremely good on Mongolian ethnic tensions.
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The Xi Jinping School of Journalism • Articles • EQUATOR
The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter
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November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
this is the best story I've ever read on what it's like working (as a PRC citizen) in state media in China, and also extremely good on Mongolian ethnic tensions.
www.equator.org/articles/the...
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The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
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Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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"“Rarely in a career do you enjoy a task that is so solitary and intense, so concentrated and vivid as that of a foreign correspondent." www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Edward Cody, globe-trotting correspondent at The Post, dies at 82
He reported on conflicts and disaster zones from Mexico to Lebanon. “Rarely in a career do you enjoy a task that is so solitary and intense,” he wrote.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"“Rarely in a career do you enjoy a task that is so solitary and intense, so concentrated and vivid as that of a foreign correspondent." www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
“In September 2024, the university informed Chinese state security that it would not be publishing a final phase of research on forced labour in China. “Immediately, relations improved,” an administrator wrote.”
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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
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November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“In September 2024, the university informed Chinese state security that it would not be publishing a final phase of research on forced labour in China. “Immediately, relations improved,” an administrator wrote.”
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