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Jiayang Fan

Food

The Gatekeepers Who Get to Decide What Food Is “Disgusting”

A trip to Sweeden’s Disgusting Food Museum.

Jiayang Fan New Yorker May 2021 25min Permalink

Best Article World

How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda

Immigrant struggles in America forged a bond that became even tighter after my mother’s A.L.S. diagnosis. Then, as COVID-19 threatened, Chinese nationalists began calling us traitors to our country.

Jiayang Fan New Yorker Sep 2020 35min Permalink

World

Hong Kong’s Protest Movement and the Fight for the City’s Soul

After six months of unrest, anti-Beijing protesters are increasingly unwilling to compromise.

Jiayang Fan New Yorker Dec 2019 35min Permalink

Movies & TV

Constance Wu’s Hollywood Destiny

A profile of the actress.

Jiayang Fan New Yorker Sep 2019 25min Permalink

Arts World

Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds

A leading sci-fi writer takes stock of China’s global rise.

Jiayang Fan New Yorker Jun 2019 25min Permalink

Business World

How E-Commerce Is Transforming Rural China

JD.com is expanding its consumer base with drone delivery and local recruits who can exploit villages’ tight-knit social networks to drum up business.

Jiayang Fan New Yorker Jul 2018 30min Permalink

Tech World Health

China's Selfie Obsession

What it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.

Jiayang Fan New Yorker Dec 2017 30min Permalink

Crime

Chinatown’s Ghost Scam

Following the fraudsters who use gods and myth to steal from the elderly.

Jiayang Fan New Yorker May 2014 25min Permalink

Sex World

China's Mistress Dispellers

How an economic boom and deep gender inequality have created a new industry.

Jiayang Fan New Yorker Jun 2017 25min Permalink

Business World

The Golden Generation

Why China’s super-rich send their children west.

Jiayang Fan New Yorker Feb 2016 20min Permalink