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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I also pretended to drive a combine and admitted that, as someone who eats an inordinate amount of tofu, I had never seen soybeans in the ground before! Many thanks to Jackson Dircks at Sout Dakota Public Broadcasting for covering our visit, and to our generous hosts from the SD Soybean Association🫘

A Chinese woman too excited to ride a combine and pretend to turn the steering wheel

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please take a moment to read this important piece that grapples with some urgent and complex issues for anyone who cares about US-China academic exchange and the transnational flow of people and ideas, co-authored by Penny Edwards and Christina Fink. www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/gues...

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A special shoutout to @ericschluessel.bsky.social, whom I met in person for the first time during my very first visit to Jifeng Books two years ago, right after it opened in DC. Eric was excited to find the Taiwanese edition of his book, Land of Strangers, on sale at the store.

Taiwanese edition of Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia by Eric Schluessel

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

When your esteemed colleague and honorary nephew @w-ch.bsky.social has bought a new lens, it is part of an aunty's obligation to help the child practice📸

A middle-aged Chinese woman standing in the shade, wearing a dress called "House of Cards"

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Have you listened to 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China, the monthly podcast @madeinchinajournal.com, hosted by yours truly, yet?😉 We launched last year. Find all current and future episodes here or on your favorite podcast platform: madeinchinajournal.com/gateway-to-g...

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

So honored my essay "To Outlive Tyranny" (dissentmagazine.org/article/to-o...) in @dissentmag.bsky.social (Fall'25), has received the 2026 Award for Excellence in Commentary/ Op-ed/ Perspective from the Asian American Journalists Association @aajaofficial.bsky.social: awards.aaja.org/jea2026/exce...

2026 AAJA Award for Excellence in Commentary/ Op-ed/ Perspective to Yangyang Cheng for "To Outlive Tyranny" in Dissent magazine

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It's such a privilege to return as a judge for the Baifang Schell Book Prize @asiasociety.org @chinabooksreview.com, after serving on its inaugural cohort last year. The shortlist for the 2025 Nonfiction Award is out. Find out more about the five fabulous titles: chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/02/s...

Five titles in the shortlist for the 2025 Baifang Schell Book Prize in the nonfiction category

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

What museum-worthy fine art were you making at eight and a half months old?🎨🐣

Art display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by an eight-and-a-half months old

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

So excited to return to my alma mater as a Pritzker Fellow with University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Among a long list of activities, I will host a seminar series on "The Development of Science & Technology Within Shifting U.S.-China Relations." Details: politics.uchicago.edu/fellows/curr...

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

For @npr.org, I review Lou Ye's acclaimed Covid movie "An Unfinished Film," its courage in venturing into the forbidden, and limitations in what it seems unable or unwilling to confront. The Chinese people deserve better, more honest stories. The work remains unfinished. www.npr.org/2025/10/04/g...

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I touched a Labubu for the first time😼

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Many thanks to @nickserpe.bsky.social and @dissentmag.bsky.social team for the space, support, and sharp edits. Read the Fall 2025 issue on authoritarianism and resistance, ft. several writers and scholars I've long admired and more, and subscribe if you can! www.dissentmagazine.org/issue/fall-2...

Cover of Dissent Magazine Fall 2025 issue

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

So grateful to do this Q&A with @williamthomas.bsky.social @aip.bsky.social on being a Chinese scientist in the US and the importance of history to my work, esp. in this moment. Read the full interview, also ft. @mcnees.bsky.social, in AIP's History Newsletter: aip.brightspotcdn.com/89/11/30815e...

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I went to this deranged little place and came back with 🎥 proof🎈

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

You can find on our website all current and future episodes of 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China, a new monthly podcast from @madeinchinajournal.com, hosted by yours truly. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Amazon Music so you don't miss an episode: madeinchinajournal.com/gateway-to-g...

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Cannot overstate how honored I was to have 閭丘露薇 @roseluqiu.bsky.social and 方可成 @fangkc.bsky.social on Ep.2 of 开门见山|Gateway to Global China, a podcast @madeinchinajournal.com, to discuss the state of journalism in China. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did! madeinchinajournal.com/2025/07/25/e...

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

We're live! I'm thrilled to share the launch of "开门见山 | Gateway to Global China," a new podcast from @madeinchinajournal.com, hosted by yours truly. Each month, guests and I explore timely issues in Chinese politics and society and the broader Sinophone world🎙️: madeinchinajournal.com/gateway-to-g...

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

What a time to announce a new project, but a few of us at @madeinchinajournal.com have been working on something very exciting👀 Stay tuned for 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China, a monthly interview series hosted by yours truly🎙️ The first episode drops in a few days, wherever you get your podcasts🎧

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It's been such a privilege to serve on the jury for the inaugural Baifang Schell Book Prize @asiasociety.org @chinabksreview.bsky.social, and to engage in a conversation with Lin King, who won the Award for Translated Literature with author Yang Shuangzi for Taiwan Travelogue, at the prize ceremony.

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

So honored that Dissident at the Doorstep, a narrative podcast I served as a co-host, writer and producer for, won the 2025 AAJA Award for Excellence in Audio Storytelling, Longform or Series, from the Asian American Journalists Association @aajaofficial.bsky.social: awards.aaja.org/2025-journal...

Social media announcement from the Asian American Journalists Association for the 2025 AAJA Award for Excellence in Audio Storytelling, Long-form or Series

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

So excited to host the inimitable @nivincent.bsky.social @npr.org as a Poynter fellow at Yale this week! Wednesday March 26 at noon, Vincent will draw on his experience from newsrooms in China, UK and US to talk about covering Asia at this historic juncture. Details: poynter.yale.edu/events/2025-...

Reporting Asia in a World of Chaos
Vincent Ni, Asia Editor at the National Public Radio (NPR) and a 2018 Yale World Fellow, will discuss his career in journalism working from newsrooms in China, the UK and the US, and how his team approaches stories from the world’s most populous region at this historic juncture. This event will be moderated by Paul Tsai China Center fellow Yangyang Cheng.

Location
Sterling Law Building, Room 129
127 Wall St.
12:10pm March 26

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Wore this to moderate a panel on "AI" and its social impacts. The jacket was too warm for inside and too cold for outside. It's still perfect.👾🔨

A studded leather jacket that reads "You Don't Own Me" on the back.

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

新年吃好睡好. Find joy and community. Practice rest as resistance🐍🧧🤞

A middle-aged Chinese woman excited to dig into a mountain of treats.

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Happy Year of the Snake! I got an age-appropriate gift from my esteemed colleague and honorary nephew @w-ch.bsky.social 🐍🧧

A middle-aged woman holding a gift box of Legos in honor of the Year of the Snake, marked for Age 8+

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Made a new friend at the office, courtesy of my esteemed colleague Nicholas Bequelin. Can you tell what politically-significant animal this is? Iykyk🦙

A Chinese woman very excited to hold a grass mud horse doll in Minecraft style.

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

My esteemed colleague and honorary nephew @w-ch.bsky.social and I made the Lego poinsettia on Xmas eve as a gift for loved ones🥰

An esteemed young legal scholar and his weird aunty with a Lego poinsettia they made together.

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Wore a dress to match the tree🎄

A woman in a sparkly dress next to a sparkly Christmas tree. She's holding a Lego poinsettia.

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Four years ago today @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social drew me as a Bridgerton character to entice me to watch the show. I have not seen the show but I feel loved☺️

A very talented artist imagines her awkward friend as a Bridgerton character.

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

So in awe of my esteemed colleague and honorary nephew @w-ch.bsky.social's Lego collection, a fraction of which is pictured here, but am glad I brought little props to match my dress💄🎄

$A proud aunty next to a fraction of her honorary nephew's Lego collection, which includes a very large rocket.$

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The restaurant bills itself as "the most glamorous."

A woman at a sort-of-rooftop restaurant hoping to drink enough to feel warm.
Comment: She did and did.

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today! 12:10pm at Yale Law School SLB122, come hear @ewong.bsky.social and yours truly talk about his stunning new book, At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China, which I had the privilege of reviewing: chinabooksreview.com/2024/08/22/r... Event details: law.yale.edu/yls-today/ya...

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