Yangyang Cheng

@yangyangcheng.bsky.social

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Interdisciplinary scholar studying the history of science in China and US-China relations | Particle physicist by training | Writer at various places | Editor at the Made in China Journal and Host of Gateway to Global China

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

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

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

A Chinese woman holding a cookie with a grumpy yet festive horse.

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

IOP Fellowship poster

A still from the show "Sunny" starring Rashida Jones

A middle-aged woman with a toothy doll

Cover of Dissent Magazine Fall 2025 issue

Woman surrounded by googly eyes who cannot talk back

Lovely hearts

Show art for Dissident at the Doorstep

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

blessing the boats, by Lucille Clifton
(at St. Mary's)

may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that

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

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

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

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

Middle-aged woman disappointed by weak robot grip.

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

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

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

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

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