Emily Feng
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Emily Feng is an international correspondent for NPR covering China, Taiwan, and beyond from her base in Washington, D.C. Feng joined NPR in 2019. Previously, she served as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times.
Feng has reported from the bottom of a coal mine, the top of a mosque in Qinghai, China, and inside a cave Chairman Mao once lived in.
Her book, Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, published by Crown, was released in 2025. She was the 2023 winner of the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, awarded to a rising, young journalist. She also received the 2022 Shorenstein Journalism Award for her reporting on the Asia Pacific.
Feng graduated from Duke University with a dual bachelor's degree in Asian and Middle Eastern studies and public policy.
