Fan Chen received her Bachelor’s degree from New York University and her Master’s from Columbia University. She has reported news in Cambodia, the Czech Republic, and China, where she covered politics, economics, gender, labor, media reform, and historical trauma. She has worked for Newsweek, Reuters, Southern People Weekly, and Caijing. She is now a photojournalist based in New York, where she continues to explore underrepresented and marginalized communities.

Last Updated: October 12, 2023

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10.24.23

Are Staying in the U.S. or Returning to China Mutually Exclusive?

Wendy Zhou, Zizhu Zhang & more
The past several years have seen declines in both the number of Chinese students studying in the U.S. and U.S. students studying China. We asked Chinese students studying, or who have recently completed their studies, in the U.S. why they chose to...