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Emily Feng
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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
Catching up on my book pile and looking forward to diving into this (which just hit shelves)
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Reminiscent of Hong Kong tactics - barricades going up around DuPont before pride weekend
June 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Huge protest right now against Musk and Trump on the national mall in Washington right now
April 5, 2025 at 6:09 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/...
April 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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
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
Loving the photos readers are sending me of my book out in the wild
March 19, 2025 at 3:39 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...
March 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
March 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Unboxing!!!
February 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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.
February 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Home, Syria
February 2, 2025 at 12:43 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
January 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Burning captagon by the rays of the setting sun in Damascus, Syria
January 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Damascus reporting
January 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Bubbles in a fountain; why not?
January 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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...
January 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Small celebrations in Martyr square in Beirut tonight, celebrating the new president and prime minister
January 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Gorgeous day in Lebanon
January 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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
Good afternoon from Beirut ☀️
December 19, 2024 at 10:04 AM
One of my last pieces from Taiwan, and now with gorgeous photos.

www.npr.org/2024/10/22/n...
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
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.)
December 8, 2024 at 10:09 AM