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/
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
Catching up on my book pile and looking forward to diving into this (which just hit shelves)
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Catching up on my book pile and looking forward to diving into this (which just hit shelves)
Reminiscent of Hong Kong tactics - barricades going up around DuPont before pride weekend
June 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Reminiscent of Hong Kong tactics - barricades going up around DuPont before pride weekend
Huge protest right now against Musk and Trump on the national mall in Washington right now
April 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Huge protest right now against Musk and Trump on the national mall in Washington right now
A kind of unhinged cartoon (below just one panel) that China’s state news agency released as they wrap up military drills around Taiwan www.news.cn/tw/20250401/...
April 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A kind of unhinged cartoon (below just one panel) that China’s state news agency released as they wrap up military drills around Taiwan www.news.cn/tw/20250401/...
I'll be speaking about my book on China "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom" at Politics and Prose in Washington DC this Thursday the 27!
March 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I'll be speaking about my book on China "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom" at Politics and Prose in Washington DC this Thursday the 27!
Tomorrow in NYC! I’m giving a book talk at the Asia Society about my new book, Let Only Red Flowers Bloom. You can read a free excerpt here - chinabooksreview.com/2025/03/20/z...
March 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Tomorrow in NYC! I’m giving a book talk at the Asia Society about my new book, Let Only Red Flowers Bloom. You can read a free excerpt here - chinabooksreview.com/2025/03/20/z...
Loving the photos readers are sending me of my book out in the wild
March 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Loving the photos readers are sending me of my book out in the wild
The notebook where many of Syria’s protest anthems were written. Gorgeous photos from Yahya Nemah.
How an anthem helped inspire Syria's revolution
www.npr.org/2025/03/05/n...
How an anthem helped inspire Syria's revolution
www.npr.org/2025/03/05/n...
March 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The notebook where many of Syria’s protest anthems were written. Gorgeous photos from Yahya Nemah.
How an anthem helped inspire Syria's revolution
www.npr.org/2025/03/05/n...
How an anthem helped inspire Syria's revolution
www.npr.org/2025/03/05/n...
T minus 13 days! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
March 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
T minus 13 days! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Bittersweet time for me to move to Washington DC this week, during a time of great change in my home country.
Below, a picture of Idlib during a reporting trip there last week.
Below, a picture of Idlib during a reporting trip there last week.
February 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Bittersweet time for me to move to Washington DC this week, during a time of great change in my home country.
Below, a picture of Idlib during a reporting trip there last week.
Below, a picture of Idlib during a reporting trip there last week.
HTS anti-narcotics officers say they found several tons of the drug captagon made by Assad-linked factories and other precursors today. They burned it all while we tried not to breath and recorded tape for @npr.org
January 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
HTS anti-narcotics officers say they found several tons of the drug captagon made by Assad-linked factories and other precursors today. They burned it all while we tried not to breath and recorded tape for @npr.org
Burning captagon by the rays of the setting sun in Damascus, Syria
January 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Burning captagon by the rays of the setting sun in Damascus, Syria
Damascus reporting
January 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Damascus reporting
Bubbles in a fountain; why not?
January 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Bubbles in a fountain; why not?
Really saddened to report that Abdullatif Kucar, the patriarch of the family @abduwelia.bsky.social and I spent so much time with for an Embedded series on Xinjiang, has died. He was suffering from cancer for years. Devastating how much one family has to suffer.
www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...
www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...
January 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Really saddened to report that Abdullatif Kucar, the patriarch of the family @abduwelia.bsky.social and I spent so much time with for an Embedded series on Xinjiang, has died. He was suffering from cancer for years. Devastating how much one family has to suffer.
www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...
www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...
Small celebrations in Martyr square in Beirut tonight, celebrating the new president and prime minister
January 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Small celebrations in Martyr square in Beirut tonight, celebrating the new president and prime minister
Gorgeous day in Lebanon
January 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Gorgeous day in Lebanon
So thrilling to see advance copies of my book out in the wild!! Launch date is this coming March www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724947...
December 31, 2024 at 11:55 AM
So thrilling to see advance copies of my book out in the wild!! Launch date is this coming March www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724947...
Good afternoon from Beirut ☀️
December 19, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Good afternoon from Beirut ☀️
December 9, 2024 at 5:35 PM
NPR's producer in Lebanon Jawad Rizkallah met this Syrian man who captured a falcon (shaheen, like the drones the opposition have used) and is bringing it into Syria as he returns home from Lebanon to celebrate the fall of the al-Assad regime.
December 8, 2024 at 10:11 AM
NPR's producer in Lebanon Jawad Rizkallah met this Syrian man who captured a falcon (shaheen, like the drones the opposition have used) and is bringing it into Syria as he returns home from Lebanon to celebrate the fall of the al-Assad regime.
Scenes of absolute jubilation near Lebanon's one operating crossing to Syria, celebrating the news of the fall of the al-Assad family from power.
From NPR's producer, Jawad Rizkallah.
(And yes I'm taking a break from my usual beat of the Chinese-speaking world for a stint in Beirut.)
From NPR's producer, Jawad Rizkallah.
(And yes I'm taking a break from my usual beat of the Chinese-speaking world for a stint in Beirut.)
December 8, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Scenes of absolute jubilation near Lebanon's one operating crossing to Syria, celebrating the news of the fall of the al-Assad family from power.
From NPR's producer, Jawad Rizkallah.
(And yes I'm taking a break from my usual beat of the Chinese-speaking world for a stint in Beirut.)
From NPR's producer, Jawad Rizkallah.
(And yes I'm taking a break from my usual beat of the Chinese-speaking world for a stint in Beirut.)