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Emily Feng
Born1993 (age 32–33)
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationDuke University (BA)
OccupationsJournalist, author
OrganizationNPR (2019–present)
AwardsShorenstein Journalism Award (2022)

Emily Feng (simplified Chinese: 冯哲芸; traditional Chinese: 馮哲芸; pinyin: Féng Zhéyún) is an American journalist and author who focuses on politics and human rights in China and travels frequently to conflicts and hotspots around the world.[1][2]

Early life and education

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Feng was born and raised in Bethany, Connecticut,[3] to Chinese parents. She says she considers herself Chinese and American in identity, "and that connection and those people and that world will always be accessible whether or not I am in China."[4] Feng studied Public Policy and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University and graduated in 2015.[3]

Journalism career

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Feng served as an international correspondent for NPR from 2019 to 2024, based in Beijing and Taipei. Her work in Taiwan was among a package awarded a citation from the Overseas Press Club in 2025.[5] Before joining NPR, she was a Beijing correspondent for the Financial Times.

Feng has covered semiconductors,[6] Chinese surveillance of Uyghurs, and the coronavirus epidemic in China.[7] Her work uncovering the contours of China's crackdown in Xinjiang won a Human Rights Press Award in 2021.[8] She is known for her investigations across Asia and the Middle East.[9]

She has also done reporting in conflict zones around the world, including the Middle East,[10] Europe,[11] and Asia.[12] In 2025, she moved to Washington, D.C., for NPR, where she covers foreign policy and U.S.-China relations.[13]

In 2022, Feng received the 2022 Shorenstein Journalism Award for her work in the Asia-Pacific.[14] In 2023, Feng won the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize for her reporting on Uyghur families in China.[15][16]

In 2025, Feng published Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, a book that explores questions of identity in modern China under the general secretaryship of Xi Jinping.[13][17][4] She said she wrote it because "she wanted to help people feel what it's like to live in their world, because that's what I've lost since leaving China — and, I think, what we've all lost now that there are fewer reporters on the ground in mainland China."[18]

In July 2026, "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom" was reportedly seized as "seditious material" by Hong Kong customs and prompted police raids on two independent book stores in Hong Kong, in which five bookstore employees were arrested under a National Security Law.[19] The book's Chinese version quickly became a bestseller, with its publisher in Taiwan announcing emergency re-prints to meet demand.[20]

Awards and recognition

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  • 2024 Overseas Press Club Award Lowell Thomas Award citation, for NPR stories on Taiwan[21]
  • 2023 Daniel Schorr Award for a podcast series on Uyghurs[22]
  • 2022 Shorenstein Award for stories on the Asia Pacific[23]
  • 2021 Gracie Award for crisis coverage/breaking news during China's coronavirus pandemic[24]
  • 2021 Livingston Award finalist for international reporting[25]

Books

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  • Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (2025)[26]
  • Our Hearts Burned For Home: Uyghur Militants in Syria’s Civil War. Columbia Global Reports. October 13, 2026. ISBN 978-1967190188.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)[27]

References

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  1. ↑ Furukawa, Julia (April 18, 2025). "NPR's Emily Feng explores the identity of China and its people in new book". New Hampshire Public Radio. Retrieved April 21, 2025.
  2. ↑ Feng, Emily (February 14, 2025). "The Iconic Singer of the Syrian Revolution". NPR. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Fenske, Audrey (September 7, 2023). "China From the Inside". Duke Magazine. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Chang, Ailsa (March 19, 2025). "In new book, NPR's Emily Feng explores identity after China refused to let her return". NPR. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Citation Winners". Citation Winners. Overseas Press Club of America. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  6. ↑ Feng, Emily (December 3, 2018). "China vulnerable in war with US over computer chips". Financial Times. Retrieved June 27, 2025.
  7. ↑ Feng, Emily (September 2, 2024). "How a man became an unwilling participation in China's control over Uyghurs". WBUR. Retrieved April 21, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Past Award Winners". Human Rights Press Awards. Retrieved June 27, 2025.
  9. ↑ Dixon, Greg. "The foreign fighters from China that played a key role in Syria's revolution". State of the World. NPR. Retrieved May 26, 2026.
  10. ↑ Feng, Emily (July 30, 2025). "Syrian ceasefire tests the loyalties of Druze communities in Golan Heights". NPR. Retrieved August 1, 2025.
  11. ↑ Feng, Emily; Malofieieva, Kateryna (July 18, 2022). "As Ukraine's war grinds on, soldiers are outgunned and injuries are rising". NPR. Retrieved August 1, 2025.
  12. ↑ Feng, Emily (April 11, 2024). "On a remote island, a test of wills between the Philippines and China". NPR. Retrieved August 1, 2025.
  13. 1 2 Chang, Ailsa (April 2, 2025). "A new book from Emily Feng asks what it means to be Chinese in Xi Jinping's China". NPR. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  14. ↑ Ronkin, Noa (October 17, 2022). "Shorenstein Journalism Award Winner Emily Feng Examines the Consequences of China's Information Void and the Future of China Reporting". Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. Retrieved April 21, 2025.
  15. ↑ "WBUR announces Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize winner". WBUR. April 11, 2023. Retrieved April 21, 2025.
  16. ↑ Martin, Rachel; Feng, Emily (September 18, 2022). "The Black Gate: A Uyghur Family's Story, Part 1: Up First from NPR". NPR. Retrieved April 21, 2025.
  17. ↑ Lovell, Julia (March 20, 2025). "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom — Emily Feng on what it is to be Chinese". Financial Times. Retrieved April 21, 2025.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  18. ↑ Tang, Jane; Wang, Jeff (February 22, 2025). "Interview: A former China correspondent examines identity and control under Xi". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  19. ↑ "香港國安處第三度搜查獨立書店：留下書舍、田園書屋人員被捕，引發「我是書店店員」社群聲援". 轉角國際. UDN. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
  20. ↑ 邱, 祖胤 (July 16, 2026). "香港書店賣「唯紅花綻放」遭查　台賣到斷貨緊急加印". CNA. CNA. Retrieved July 17, 2026.
  21. ↑ "Citation Winners". Overseas Press Club of America. Retrieved December 31, 2025.
  22. ↑ "WBUR announces Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize winner". WBUR. Retrieved December 31, 2025.
  23. ↑ Ronkin, Noa. "NPR's Beijing Correspondent Emily Feng Wins 2022 Shorenstein Journalism Award". Stanford University. Retrieved December 31, 2025.
  24. ↑ Hill, Sommer. "NPR Wins Six Gracie Awards". NPR. Retrieved December 31, 2025.
  25. ↑ "Livingston Award finalists move to final round of judging". University of Michigan. Retrieved December 31, 2025.
  26. ↑ Feng, Emily (2025). Let only red flowers bloom: identity and belonging in Xi Jinping's China (First ed.). New York: Crown. ISBN 978-0-593-59423-0.
  27. ↑ "Our Hearts Burned For Home". Books. Columbia Global Reports. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
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