Eva Xiao is a data journalist at the Financial Times, based in New York. Previously, she was a ChinaFile Research Fellow and worked as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and Agence France-Presse, in Hong Kong and Beijing, respectively. While in China, she reported on tech, politics, and society, covering everything from tech tycoons and luxury nursing homes to the mass destruction of graves in Xinjiang using satellite imagery. In 2021, one of her stories for The Wall Street Journal, which detailed China’s ethnic policy under Chinese leader Xi Jinping, was part of a series that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. While based in Beijing, she also spent a year co-hosting the biweekly podcast Digitally China, which focused on the country’s fast-growing tech sector, including episodes on e-commerce, gaming censorship, and artificial intelligence.
Last Updated: June 26, 2023
Features
07.10.23
For Beijing, Putting People Back to Work May Prove a Tough Job
In a small Chinese town where unemployment has run high during the COVID-19 pandemic, the local government has embraced a surprising remedy to joblessness: public toilets. Fugong Village, in Guangdong province, usually sees nearly half of its small...
Features
05.12.23
Investing in Tourism in Xinjiang, Beijing Seeks New Ways to Control the Region’s Culture
In a county where authorities ran multiple internment camps in China’s northwest Xinjiang region, the local government has commissioned a new set of buildings for a very different demographic: tourists. These sites and services, which were...