Yangyang Cheng is a research scholar in law and a fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, where her research focuses on the development of science and technology in China and US-China relations. Trained as a particle physicist, she worked on the Large Hadron Collider for over a decade. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, WIRED, and many other publications. She is also a co-host, writer, and producer for the narrative podcast series Dissident at the Doorstep, from Crooked Media.
Yangyang Cheng
Articles
Tastes Like Home
Yangyang Cheng reviews Michelle T. King’s “Chop Fry Watch Learn” and Curtis Chin’s “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.”
The Many Worlds of China: On Joshua Kurlantzick’s “Beijing’s Global Media Offensive” and Michael Berry’s “Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke”
Yangyang Cheng reviews Joshua Kurlantzick’s “Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World” and Michael Berry’s “Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke.”
The Land Is a Body
Yangyang Cheng reviews Ruth Rogaski’s “Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland” and Victor Seow’s “Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia.”
Viral Stories: On Guobin Yang’s “The Wuhan Lockdown”
Yangyang Cheng reviews Guobin Yang's new book on China's COVID-19 response, "The Wuhan Lockdown."
The Battlefield of Memory: On Rana Mitter’s “China’s Good War”
Through Rana Mitter’s book “China’s Good War,” Yangyang Cheng reflects on government control of the memory, legacy, and meaning of World War II in China.
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