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Wall Street Journal reporter. Fiction , forthcoming . Would love to hear from you at te-ping.chen@wsj.com

Philadelphia, via Beijing
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Joined October 2009
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    Aug 1

    tfw the book you wrote is almost grown up and is now a galley (!!) Pre-orders for my debut short story collection, LAND OF BIG NUMBERS, now available here & through your local bookstore 🎉🎉

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    17 hours ago

    "I do have to inform you, Mr Carney, that we have a right to keep your daughter in an undisclosed location and I do have to inform you there would be other adults present.” Chilling tale from @ MJSCarney, who left China 2 yrs ago with barely a word

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    Sep 20

    "Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true." Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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    Sep 19

    Make no mistake on TikTok -- Trump got nothing he asked for. There's no sale of the company. There's no key money. TikTok is still 80% owned by China's Bytedance. All that Trump did was funnel a 20% stake in a successful company to supporters Larry Ellison and Doug McMillon.

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    Sep 18

    A Jewish teaching says those who die just before the Jewish new year are the ones God has held back until the last moment bc they were needed most & were the most righteous. And so it was that died as the sun was setting last night marking the beginning of RoshHashanah

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    Sep 16

    Tear gas used on peaceful protests, police slamming reporters to the ground before arresting them, now this. The parallels between the U.S. and Hong Kong keep multiplying

    Barr told the nation’s federal prosecutors to be aggressive when charging violent demonstrators with crimes, including potentially prosecuting protesters for plotting to overthrow the U.S. government. ⁦⁩
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    Sep 16

    Well, this is horrifying

    Almost a quarter of young adults in America (23%) said they believed the Holocaust was a myth or had been exaggerated or weren’t sure. One in eight (12%) said they had definitely not heard, or didn’t think they had heard, about the Holocaust.
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    Sep 16

    My story today: Last year, a Chinese woman was savagely beaten by her husband. To escape, she jumped from the second floor of a building, leaving her temporarily paralyzed. She filed for divorce but the court said no. 1/7

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    Sep 16

    I am a sucker for big wave footage and this, on the woman who surfed the biggest wave of the year to strangely little acclaim, is fascinating

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    Sep 15

    The U.S. government has deported a crucial witness in an investigation into allegations of sexual assault at an El Paso immigrant detention center, the witness’ lawyers said. Important story, via ⁦⁩ & ⁦⁩:

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    Sep 15

    New: Beijing just released a policy document to make private companies adhere closer to the party ideology. Not sure if it’s related to the TikTok saga in any way, but one clause says they would cultivate more high-tech entrepreneurs loyal to the party.

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    Sep 14

    For unknown reasons, U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Brandstad just announced he is stepping down in early Oct. This means that during one of the most dangerous periods of U.S.-China relations, the U.S. will likely lack a confirmed ambassador in Beijing.

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  13. Sep 14

    This photo from a Hong Kong press conference is so painful to see. Hong Kongers pleading anonymously for their relatives in China, forced to block their faces to try and protect their own identities 

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    Sep 14

    More transgender people are coming out at work. Wynne Nowland is one of the few to do it as the boss.

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    Sep 9

    For all wanting to learn to cook Uyghur food at home, look no further than Silk Road Recipes, a new cookbook by Gulmira Propper! The cookbook aims to teach Uyghur cuisine, which tends not to use precise recipes, to cooks unfamiliar w/ the culture and food:

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    Sep 10

    Incredible. Disney, which hoped Mulan would be a hit w Chinese audiences, shot parts of the film in Xinjiang— a name now synonymous with internment camps. It even thanked some of the region’s public security bureaus. How did China repay Disney’s support?

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  17. Sep 10

    A friend sent me this photo & I reflexively thought at first of San Francisco—the steeply graded hill, the mist like water—except this is Beijing (and SF’s skies are orange).

    It's taken nearly two decades, but today I was finally able to take this shot. Yes, that's Beijing's skyline taken from the Great Wall of China. Massive thanks to for assisting with the ad-hoc identification of a well-suited part of the wall with the correct alignment.
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    Sep 9

    Even on a day filled with bad news, this stands out. Or at least it should:

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    Sep 9

    Hell of a lede on 's latest. 🐜

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    Sep 9

    Bergamo has dramatically curtailed the virus’s spread, but it is now offering another kind of warning, this one about the long aftermath, where recoveries are proving incomplete and sometimes excruciating.

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    Sep 8

    Other people have said this and they are right. This is a masterpiece by . About family, illness, immigration, pride, dignity, love and hope.

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