Contributor Guidelines and Compensation

on November 28, 2023

We welcome unsolicited pitches at editors@chinafile.com. If you are new to ChinaFile, please include with your pitch a few writing samples or clips (or other examples of past work), as well as a brief bio or CV.

While we generally publish work originally written in English, we also have some capacity to translate. We also welcome co-production, co-publication, and syndication.

If we agree to take on a pitched article, we will offer a per-piece fee to the author, at a rate competitive with industry standards.

ChinaFile Presents: China Reporting in Exile

By Annie Jieping Zhang, Li Yuan & more on November 1, 2023

ChinaFile and The New York Review of Books co-hosted a panel discussion with Chinese journalists working from abroad. Participants included reporter, editor, and digital media entrepreneur Annie Jieping Zhang, New York Times columnist Li Yuan, investigative journalist and essayist Jiang Xue, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ian Johnson. ChinaFile Editor-in-Chief Susan Jakes moderated the conversation.