Xiaoqing Rong

Rong Xiaoqing is a New York based journalist and an Alicia Patterson Fellow (2019). She has been writing about the Chinese community in the U.S. since 2002. She writes for various English and Chinese language publications in the U.S. and China. She is the writer for the New York Times’ weekly Chinese language newsletter “Overseas Chinese Journal.” Her articles have also appeared in Foreign Policy, the National Review, Wired, The New York Daily News, The City, the South China Morning Post and China Newsweek, among other publications. Rong has won multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, CUNY J-School and New America Media. She was the first reporter from a non-English language media to win an award from the Deadline Club. She was a grant recipient of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the California Health Endowment. Rong holds a Master’s degree in business journalism from City University of New York and a bachelor’s degree in Chinese language and literature from Nanjing University, China. Follow her on Twitter @xqrong.