Emily Feng 冯哲芸 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Emily Feng is NPR's Beijing correspondent. Covering China, Taiwan, and beyond for @NPR. Also writing a book on Chinese identity for @CrownPublishing. 请联系我 efeng@npr.org

A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival
Gulchehra Hoja
I literally sobbed on the Amtrak train from DC reading this book by @GulchehraHoja, who opened the door on so much Xinjiang reporting. The sweep of the last 4 decades of Communist party rule is so viscerally felt in her memoir. (You can pre-order below) https://t.co/y6yECX9AjX
Hardcover, 2023
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Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
Josh Chin
Surveillance State is a cautionary book. It is fairhanded in detailing the rapacious speed at which China has constructed a model of digital authoritarianism ... Its value is in showing how such surveillance systems are only as good (or bad) as the people who build them.
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Waste Tide
Chen Qiufan
RT @ChenQiufan: Thanks @EmilyZFeng! I forgot to mention my novel Waste Tide will come out next April by Tor and also translated by @kyliu99…
Paperback, 2020
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the Cia, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Steve Coll
When I feel like there is no hope in the U.S.-China relationship, I try to remember that the Chinese Communist Party once sold covert arms and mules - yes the animals - direct to the CIA and think, how did we get to today? (Screenshot from Ghost Wars by the excellent Steve Coll) https://t.co/CDQbkkflv4
Paperback, 2004
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