Emily Feng
Emily Feng is a White House correspondent at NPR. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent for NPR covering China, Taiwan, and beyond.
Feng joined NPR in 2019. Before that, Feng served as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, based in Beijing.
Feng's reporting has brought her all over East and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. She's filed stories from the bottom of a coal mine, inside a sauna in Ukraine, on a half-finished boat in the South China Sea, and inside a cave Chairman Mao once lived in.
Her book, "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom," published by Crown, came out in 2025. Based on a decade of reporting from the Asia Pacific, the book chronicles how ordinary people are redefining Chinese identity and the state's preoccupation with identity. Her second book, "Our Hearts Burned For Home," set for publication in October 2026, unearths the story of Uyghur exiles who fled China's expanding police state — only to become a pivotal force behind the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.
Feng's work from Taiwan was awarded a citation from the Overseas Press Club award in 2025. She's also been awarded Boston University's Hugo Shong Reporting Asia Award, the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, given to a rising public media journalist 35 years of age or younger, and the Shorenstein Journalism Award for her overall reporting on the Asia Pacific.
Her human rights coverage has been shortlisted by the British Journalism Awards and won two Human Rights Press awards. Her radio coverage of the coronavirus epidemic in China was recognized by the National Headliners Award, and she spearheaded coverage that has won two Gracie Awards. 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.
She can be reached via encrypted message at emilyzfeng.96 on Signal.
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A conversation with eclectic rock duo, Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach of the The Black Keys, about the unique motivations behind the making of their new album, Peaches!
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Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest anthems. In death, he has become its saint. But he didn't do it alone. -
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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Abao sings in the Paiwan language — not Chinese, which dominates Taiwan's pop music industry. Her popularity reflects the island's overdue recognition and awareness of Indigenous culture. -
NPR's Emily Feng talks with the German-Syrian duo Shkoon, who are returning to their roots with the release of their new album FIRAQ.
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China has more than enough capacity to generate energy. Here's why it is having to ration power, causing effects for consumers and supply chains around the world. -
U.S. firms are confident about prospects in China despite a global coronavirus pandemic and stagnant bilateral relations, according to a new survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.
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For decades, rising property prices helped enrich China. Now one of the country's biggest developers is facing bankruptcy. Policymakers fear it could send China's financial system into a tailspin. -
An intern accused a well-known TV anchor of forcibly kissing her. In a ruling this week, a Beijing court found that it could not determine whether sexual harassment had occurred. -
Fierce competition to get children into the top schools has spawned an aggressive parenting culture named for a traditional-medicine treatment in which chicken blood is injected to stimulate energy.
