In the News

VIDEO: “The Ripple Effect of China’ One Child Policy” (MSNBC, November 2015)
Pete Dominick interviews Mei Fong on SiriusXM (November 2015)
“In China, the one child policy will be felt for decades,” by Claudia Trevisan (in Portuguese, O Estado de S.Paulo, November 2015)
“Anxious Communist Party Won’t Get Out of the Bedroom,” by Andrew Browne (WSJ, November 2015)
“How Did the One-Child Policy Change China?: An Interview with Mei Fong” (The New Yorker, November 2015)
Judging China’s One-Child Policy (The New Yorker, October 2015)
CBS: Most populous nation expands child limits
NBC News: China to End Decades Old One-Child Policy as Population Ages, FRI, OCT 30
LA Times: China’s one-child policy is now a two-child policy, Julie Makinen, October 29
New York Times: Q. and A.: Mei Fong on the Impact of China’s ‘One Child’ Policy
AUDIO: “All couples in China will be allowed to have two children, after the ruling Communist Party announced the end of the long-running one child policy” (ABC NewsRadio, October 2015)
AUDIO: Mei discusses the end of the one child policy with Robert Siegel on NPR’s All Things Considered. (October 2015)
“China Ending Its One-Child Policy Isn’t That Big of a Deal,” by Shannon Tiezzi (The Diplomat, October 2015)
“A silver lining to China’s one-child policy,” by Patti Waldmeir. (Financial Times, October 2015)

“Why China’s Second-Baby Boom Might Not Happen,” by Christina Larson. (Bloomberg, August 2014)
“The End of China’s One-Child Policy? An Interview with Mei Fong,” by Jeffrey Wasserstrom. (Dissent, December 11, 2013)
VIDEO: Mei Fong on “Reform 3.0–China’s next direction.” (Milken Institute, May 2, 2013)
AUDIO: Is China’s Economic Instability a Political Crisis? (KCRW)
AUDIO: China Revises Its One-Child Policy in New Reforms (KCRW)
AUDIO: Podcast: China’s One Child Policy (BFM)
“China watchers subjected to Twitter hacking,” by Josh Ong. (November 2012)
“Malaysian Journalist With WSJ Bags Pulitzer,” by Tham Choy Lin (Bernama.com, May 2007)

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Her stories on China’s transformative process in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics formed part of the package that won the Journal the 2007 Pulitzer Prize international reporting. She's also the winner of Amnesty International Human Rights Press Award, as well as awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia and Society of Professional Journalist's Deadline Awards. Born in Malaysia, Ms. Fong started off her journalism career in Singapore as a crime reporter at tabloid The New Paper. She has taught at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism and at Shantou University in China. She is currently a Fellow at New America Foundation.