Let Only Red Flowers Bloom

The East Asia Center will kick off the spring speaker series hosting Emily Feng, award-winning international correspondent for NPR, in conversation with Canaan Morse, postdoctoral research associate and lecturer for the UVA Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures, about Feng's recent work Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China. 

For most of the last decade, Emily Feng has covered China, Taiwan, and beyond for NPR, chronicling China's rise and its impact on the region. She's filed stories from the bottom of a coal mine, the top of a mosque in Qinghai, and inside a cave Chairman Mao once lived in.

In 2024, she was chosen by Boston University for their Hugo Shong Reporting Asia Award for exhibiting "the highest standards of international journalism in a series of reports on matters of importance specific to Asia." She was 2023 winner of the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, awarded to a rising public media journalist 35 years of age or younger. She also received the 2022 Shorenstein Journalism Award for her overall reporting on the Asia Pacific.

Join us for the discussion Friday, February 20, from 3:15 - 4:30 p.m. in Monroe 118.