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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I am horrified that the United States continues to set precedent for China to take unilateral action against Taiwan.
It isn’t 疑美論, it is 怕美論.
It isn’t 疑美論, it is 怕美論.
January 3, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I am horrified that the United States continues to set precedent for China to take unilateral action against Taiwan.
It isn’t 疑美論, it is 怕美論.
It isn’t 疑美論, it is 怕美論.
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The U.S. military action in Venezuela has drawn condemnation from many regional governments and global powers alike, raising fresh questions about legality, sovereignty and the risk of escalation. n.pr/3NsAox1
U.S. strikes on Venezuela spark alarm across Latin America and beyond
The U.S. military action in Venezuela has drawn condemnation from many regional governments and global powers alike, raising fresh questions about legality, sovereignty and the risk of escalation.
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January 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The U.S. military action in Venezuela has drawn condemnation from many regional governments and global powers alike, raising fresh questions about legality, sovereignty and the risk of escalation. n.pr/3NsAox1
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👇 An unusually tough year to pick 5 China books that stood out, as more than a dozen could have made the list. I set some rules for myself to limit the field (explained below) & chose @emilyzfeng.bsky.social's & Dan Wang's debut book, latest ones by Rian Thum & CK Lee + I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
My latest list of China books of the year up at @fivebooks.com —along with an interview (key to read for a sense of the books AND at the end has a note explaining some of the rules I set myself embarking on an impossible task given how many good works keep coming out) fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
The Best China Books of 2025
American professor and modern Chinese history specialist Jeffrey Wasserstrom recommends favourite books about China published in 2025.
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December 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
👇 An unusually tough year to pick 5 China books that stood out, as more than a dozen could have made the list. I set some rules for myself to limit the field (explained below) & chose @emilyzfeng.bsky.social's & Dan Wang's debut book, latest ones by Rian Thum & CK Lee + I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
A bit niche but I really loved Islamic China - one of the most insightful and conceptually interesting books so far on Islam in China that I've read
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fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
The Best China Books of 2025
American professor and modern Chinese history specialist Jeffrey Wasserstrom recommends favourite books about China published in 2025.
fivebooks.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A bit niche but I really loved Islamic China - one of the most insightful and conceptually interesting books so far on Islam in China that I've read
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
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A great article by @heldavidson.bsky.social
"Lin is among hundreds of people whose remains Liu, a 58-year-old Taiwanese man, has helped return to China over the past 23 years."
"Lin is among hundreds of people whose remains Liu, a 58-year-old Taiwanese man, has helped return to China over the past 23 years."
‘Ferryman of the souls’: the man who helps Taiwan’s dead return home to China
Liu De-wen operates at a sensitive space in Taiwan’s history, as Beijing demands reunification with the island
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December 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
A great article by @heldavidson.bsky.social
"Lin is among hundreds of people whose remains Liu, a 58-year-old Taiwanese man, has helped return to China over the past 23 years."
"Lin is among hundreds of people whose remains Liu, a 58-year-old Taiwanese man, has helped return to China over the past 23 years."
China just announced military drills encircling Taiwan for this coming Tuesday www.news.cn/politics/202...
东部战区开展“正义使命-2025”演习-新华网
东部战区开展“正义使命-2025”演习-东部战区新闻发言人施毅陆军大校表示，12月29日开始，中国人民解放军东部战区组织陆军、海军、空军、火箭军等兵力，位台湾海峡、台岛北部、台岛西南、台岛东南、台岛以东，组织“正义使命-2025”演习，重点演练海空战备警巡、夺取综合制权、要港要域封控、外线立体慑阻等科目，舰机多向抵近台岛，诸军兵种联合突击，旨在检验战区部队联合作战实战能力。
www.news.cn
December 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
China just announced military drills encircling Taiwan for this coming Tuesday www.news.cn/politics/202...
"a side hustle as a savior" www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
It Pays to Have Long Hair and a Beard in Utah—Jesus Models Are in Demand
Lookalikes are being hired for family portraits and wedding announcements but expectations can be high; ‘You know I’m not the real Jesus, right?’
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December 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"a side hustle as a savior" www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
Good that China is trying to get ahead of AI chatbot development, but among the rules up for public debate (I do not these are not implemented yet) are: "Use data sets that conform to the core socialist values and embody the exceptional traditional culture of the Chinese people"
China has put out draft measures on human-like interactive AI services (chatbots etc.)
We'll get a working translation and some analysis soon, but these rules will set the standard of responsibility for inducing user suicidal ideation, dependancy, etc.
www.chinalawtranslate.com/chatbot-meas...
We'll get a working translation and some analysis soon, but these rules will set the standard of responsibility for inducing user suicidal ideation, dependancy, etc.
www.chinalawtranslate.com/chatbot-meas...
www.chinalawtranslate.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Good that China is trying to get ahead of AI chatbot development, but among the rules up for public debate (I do not these are not implemented yet) are: "Use data sets that conform to the core socialist values and embody the exceptional traditional culture of the Chinese people"
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It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
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“Chinese analysts have interpreted the new strategy as evidence of American retreat.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
China Is Feeling Strong and Senses an American Retreat
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Chinese analysts have interpreted the new strategy as evidence of American retreat.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
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Selena Simmons-Duffin at NPR broke the news about the trans kids’ health care ban, and now she’s following up. Note that she actually talks to doctors and trans kids, not just politicians.
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Trump's push to end transgender care for young people opposed by pediatricians
Doctors and children's hospitals say nothing in the evidence has changed to justify the Trump administration's efforts to ban gender-affirming care for teens and tweens.
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December 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Selena Simmons-Duffin at NPR broke the news about the trans kids’ health care ban, and now she’s following up. Note that she actually talks to doctors and trans kids, not just politicians.
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Great list of books
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The essential China reading list
We asked 51 China watchers for the best book on the country they’ve read this year.
www.semafor.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Great list of books
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
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Yesterday night I was dissecting with fellow audio lovers the genius sound design behind Jad Abumrad’s new series on Fela Kuti. It offered lessons on how to write around music, which I tried to incorporate in stories like this one, from Syria
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Old divides in a new Syria
One year after the ousting of the Assad regime, some of the first Syrian revolutionaries return to their homes and try to start their lives again. But new divisions and old animosities still fester.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Yesterday night I was dissecting with fellow audio lovers the genius sound design behind Jad Abumrad’s new series on Fela Kuti. It offered lessons on how to write around music, which I tried to incorporate in stories like this one, from Syria
www.npr.org/2025/12/12/n...
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The fiction list is (also) really excellent; my reading list is set for the next few months
Best China Books of 2025 @chinabooksreview.com: great list with @emilyzfeng.bsky.social Dan Wang @evadou.bsky.social @patrickmcgee.bsky.social Barbara Demick and others. I just ordered the book by Minxin Pei. Huge thanks to @vicshih.bsky.social for including me
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Best China Books of 2025 | China Books Review
Identity issues. Migrant stories. Company profiles. Lost daughters. Daddy issues. Our annual round-up of notable books on or from China, nonfiction and literature, nominated by experts.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The fiction list is (also) really excellent; my reading list is set for the next few months
An administration lawyer argued on Monday Guan should be deported to Uganda, a country he has absolutely no ties to. www.npr.org/2025/12/17/g...
A Chinese man who filmed secret footage in Xinjiang risks deportation from the U.S.
Guan Heng sailed to the U.S. by boat from the Bahamas after publishing footage he filmed of purported detention camps in China. He has been held in immigration detention since August.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
An administration lawyer argued on Monday Guan should be deported to Uganda, a country he has absolutely no ties to. www.npr.org/2025/12/17/g...
Can't wait to see this film
"Bi returned to Guizhou after graduation and set up a wedding-videography studio. At one point, he considered quitting film altogether and becoming a demolition man." www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
"Bi returned to Guizhou after graduation and set up a wedding-videography studio. At one point, he considered quitting film altogether and becoming a demolition man." www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
Bi Gan’s Dream Factory
With “Resurrection,” the director has made a surrealist epic not just about Chinese history but about the cinema itself.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Can't wait to see this film
"Bi returned to Guizhou after graduation and set up a wedding-videography studio. At one point, he considered quitting film altogether and becoming a demolition man." www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
"Bi returned to Guizhou after graduation and set up a wedding-videography studio. At one point, he considered quitting film altogether and becoming a demolition man." www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
"Have you ever in your life encountered a character as wretched as Donald Trump?" David Remnick in the New Yorker
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Donald Trump’s Remarks on the Death of Rob Reiner Are Next-Level Degradation
On a weekend of terrible violent events, you would not expect a President of the United States to make matters even worse. But, of course, he did.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"Have you ever in your life encountered a character as wretched as Donald Trump?" David Remnick in the New Yorker
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"Chinese authorities arrested dozens of Tibetans who were protesting a mining project in one of their communities, according to Tibetan activists and the government in exile, an act of defiance by a community that has been tightly controlled by Beijing." www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
Exclusive | Tibetan Activists Say China Has Detained Protesters Who Staged Rare Act of Defiance
Chinese authorities arrested dozens of Tibetans who were protesting a mining project, according to Tibetan activists and the government in exile.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Chinese authorities arrested dozens of Tibetans who were protesting a mining project in one of their communities, according to Tibetan activists and the government in exile, an act of defiance by a community that has been tightly controlled by Beijing." www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
I can't really think of another billionaire who has been so popular among ordinary people
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Hong Kong court convicts pro-democracy activist and mogul Jimmy Lai
The business mogul and activist has been in ailing health and has already spent more than 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Hong Kong before his guilty verdict.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I can't really think of another billionaire who has been so popular among ordinary people
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“An increasing number of “crazy rich” clients are commissioning dozens, or even hundreds, of U.S.-born babies with the goal of “forging an unstoppable family dynasty,” he said.” www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate
Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites are building mega-families—testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them.
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“An increasing number of “crazy rich” clients are commissioning dozens, or even hundreds, of U.S.-born babies with the goal of “forging an unstoppable family dynasty,” he said.” www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
"the term has come full circle to its roots describing unproductive economic activity. Might one say the word neijuan … has made a full involution?"
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Feeling burned out? There's a word for that in Mandarin Chinese
How an obscure term used in anthropology leaped from the pages of academia into the Chinese meme world and then became part of Chinese government policymaking.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"the term has come full circle to its roots describing unproductive economic activity. Might one say the word neijuan … has made a full involution?"
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Here at NPR we are mourning at our editor Kevin Drew suddenly dying
I am in shock. He never let on he was sick.
Remembering NPR's Kevin Drew one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5639...
I am in shock. He never let on he was sick.
Remembering NPR's Kevin Drew one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5639...
🔊 Listen Now: Remembering NPR's Kevin Drew
Morning Edition on NPR One | 0:46
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December 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Here at NPR we are mourning at our editor Kevin Drew suddenly dying
I am in shock. He never let on he was sick.
Remembering NPR's Kevin Drew one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5639...
I am in shock. He never let on he was sick.
Remembering NPR's Kevin Drew one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5639...