Emily Feng

{{Short description|American journalist}}

{{Infobox person

| citizenship = United States

| education = Duke University (BA)

| occupation = Journalist, author

| organization = NPR (2019-2024)

| awards = Shorenstein Journalism Award (2022)

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Emily Feng ({{Langx|zh|冯哲芸}}) is an American journalist and author who focuses on human rights in China.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-18 |title=NPR's Emily Feng explores the identity of China and its people in new book |url=https://www.nhpr.org/arts-culture/2025-04-18/nprs-emily-feng-explores-the-identity-of-china-and-its-people-in-new-book |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=New Hampshire Public Radio |language=en}}

Career

Feng served as an international correspondent for NPR from 2019 to 2024, based in Beijing and Taipei. Feng covered Chinese surveillance of Uyghurs and the coronavirus epidemic in China.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-02 |title=How a man became an unwilling participation in China's control over Uyghurs |url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/09/02/china-uyghur-control |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=www.wbur.org |language=en}}

In 2022, Feng received the 2022 Shorenstein Journalism Award for her work in the Asia-Pacific.{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |last3= |date=2022-10-17 |title=Shorenstein Journalism Award Winner Emily Feng Examines the Consequences of |url=https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/news/shorenstein-journalism-award-winner-emily-feng-examines-consequences-china%E2%80%99s-information-void |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=aparc.fsi.stanford.edu |language=en}} In 2023, Feng won the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize for her reporting on Uyghur families in China.{{Cite web |date=2023-04-11 |title=WBUR announces Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize winner |url=https://www.wbur.org/inside/2023/04/11/wbur-announces-2022-daniel-schorr-journalism-prize-winner |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=www.wbur.org |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=September 18, 2022 |title=The Black Gate: A Uyghur Family's Story, Part 1: Up First from NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/09/16/1123536630/the-black-gate-a-uyghur-familys-story-part-1 |access-date=2025-04-21 |work=NPR |language=en}}

In 2025, Feng published Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, exploring questions of identity in modern China.{{Cite news |title=A new book from Emily Feng asks what it means to be Chinese in Xi Jinping's China : NPR's Book of the Day |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/1242229702/nprs-book-of-the-day-emily-feng-let-only-red-flowers-bloom |access-date=2025-04-21 |work=NPR |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Lovell |first=Julia |date=2025-03-20 |title=Let Only Red Flowers Bloom — Emily Feng on what it is to be Chinese |url=https://www.ft.com/content/0900e151-402f-4b4d-a0b9-911748d0304b |access-date=2025-04-21 |work=Financial Times}}{{Cite news |title=In new book, NPR's Emily Feng explores identity after China refused to let her return |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5178087/in-new-book-nprs-emily-feng-explores-identity-after-china-refused-to-let-her-return |access-date=2025-04-21 |work=NPR |language=en}}

Books

  • Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (2025){{Cite book |last=Feng |first=Emily |title=Let only red flowers bloom: identity and belonging in Xi Jinping's China |date=2025 |publisher=Crown |isbn=978-0-593-59423-0 |edition=First |location=New York}}

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