Beimeng Fu is an award-winning multimedia journalist and founder of the newsletter The Southern Chinatown. Her research focuses on China and the Chinese diaspora’s interactions with Southeast Asia and Latin America. Through character-driven features, she explores the human story of global power shifts and how vastly different worlds resonate with one another. She has worked at BuzzFeed News, ABC News, and Sixth Tone, with bylines in Nikkei Asia, Rest of World, and more.
Last Updated: July 30, 2026
Features
07.31.26
In Mexico City, Young Chinese Women Are Becoming Their Own Bosses
As China’s global footprint expands, Zhao is part of a growing cohort of young Chinese women building overseas careers and leadership experience at Chinese corporations in emerging markets such as Mexico. It’s a crisp day. Zhao’s mission in Mexico...
Depth of Field
05.15.20
‘A Letter to My Friend under Quarantine in Wuhan’
from Yuanjin Photo
Highlighting Chinese visual storytellers’ coverage of COVID-19 inside China. Some of these storytellers were on the ground documenting the experience of residents and medical workers in Wuhan, the city where the virus first emerged. Other...
Depth of Field
12.31.19
‘Nowhere to Dock’
from Yuanjin Photo
In 2019, Depth of Field showcased stories covering a range of topics: Shi Yangkun’s nostaglic exploration of China’s last collective villages, Zhu Lingyu’s careful and artisitic portrayal of survivors of sexual violence, and cities seen through the...