Emily Feng
Emily Feng is NPR's Beijing correspondent.
Feng joined NPR in 2019. She roves around China, through its big cities and small villages, reporting on social trends as well as economic and political news coming out of Beijing. Feng contributes to NPR's newsmagazines, newscasts, podcasts, and digital platforms.
Previously, Feng served as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. Based in Beijing, she covered a broad range of topics, including human rights and technology. She also began extensively reporting on the region of Xinjiang during this period, becoming the first foreign reporter to uncover that China was separating Uyghur children from their parents and sending them to state-run orphanages, and discovering that China was introducing forced labor in Xinjiang's detention camps.
Feng's reporting has also let her nerd out over semiconductors and drones, travel to environmental wastelands, and write about girl bands and art. She's filed stories from the bottom of a coal mine; the top of a mosque in Qinghai; and from inside a cave Chairman Mao once lived in.
Her human rights coverage has been shortlisted by the British Journalism Awards in 2018, recognized by the Amnesty Media Awards in February 2019 and won a Human Rights Press merit that May. Her radio coverage of the coronavirus epidemic in China earned her another Human Rights Press Award, was recognized by the National Headliners Award, and won a Gracie Award. She was also named a Livingston Award finalist in 2021.
Feng graduated cum laude from Duke University with a dual B.A. degree from Duke's Sanford School in Asian and Middle Eastern studies and in public policy.
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A Hong Kong court has sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to up to a decade behind bars after it ruled in a landmark legal case that they had broken a national security law implemented by Beijing. -
Amid geopolitical uncertainties, Taiwan has slashed its investment in China to the lowest level in nearly a quarter century as the island strives to "derisk" itself from its powerful neighbor.
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Taiwan opera is revered across the Asian island. One of its most beloved traits is its gender-bending character archetypes, and its best-known actors are women who portray men.
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Companies in China are fueling a "silver economy" by adapting to serve hundreds of millions of people over the age of 60.
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Around the world, companies and governments are competing over who can build the most computing power -- quickly -- as the computing demands of generative artificial intelligence expand.
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Music is a big part of Taiwan's culture. The island even has its own special type of opera. In one temple, a small theater troupe is preparing a special performance -- just for the gods.
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A Taiwanese opera troupe prepares a lavish, multi-day performance - for the gods.
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An upcoming Taiwanese television show is generating buzz for imagining what a Chinese invasion of the democratic island would look like.
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The decision has sent shockwaves through the adoption community and angered families still in the process of adopting children from China. We interviewed adoptees in the U.S. to hear their reaction. -
China has banned transnational adoption, ending more-than three decades during which more than 160,000 children were adopted abroad. Adoptees say they have conflicted feelings about the ban.
