Yangyang Cheng, Author at SupChina

Stargazing Before the Apocalypse

Yangyang ChengMarch 25, 2020

Illustration by Julia YH The coronavirus is claiming many casualties: lives and livelihoods, habits and customs. What is the purpose…

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Fault Lines in Humanity

Yangyang ChengFebruary 26, 2020

Illustration by Derek Zheng A state’s ability to protect is simultaneously its permission to do harm. The tyranny of the…

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In Sickness and in Health

Yangyang ChengJanuary 29, 2020

He Jiankui and bioethics, Chinese hospitals and patient violence, the coronavirus and lockdown of Wuhan, and politics during times of emergency.…

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I Save You in the Clouds

Yangyang ChengDecember 25, 2019

How should the self struggle against forgetting? What becomes of a life after it’s gone, if not for other people’s…

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Talking to my mother about Hong Kong

Yangyang ChengNovember 27, 2019

I wonder how much my mother has been projecting our tortured relationship onto the events in Hong Kong over the…

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The Holy and the Broken

Yangyang ChengOctober 30, 2019

Salam: the First ****** Nobel Laureate is a documentary currently streaming on Netflix that looks at the life of Abdus Salam,…

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Hands That Feed

Yangyang ChengSeptember 25, 2019

At a time when ethno-authoritarianism is on the rise across the globe, often aided by new technology, the idea that…

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Freedom in Dissent

Yangyang ChengAugust 28, 2019

As protests rage in Hong Kong, Yangyang Cheng thinks about her own experience with expression and dissent. “Are…

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‘Communism is a faith’

Yangyang ChengJuly 31, 2019

90 million people are officially members of the Chinese Communist Party. Why have they chosen to take the pledge? And…

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The Highest Exam

Yangyang ChengJune 26, 2019

The gaokao is the most formidable test in the world. Literally “the high exam,” it is China’s National College Entrance Examination,…

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My science has no nationality

Yangyang ChengMay 29, 2019

For Chinese scientists who immigrated to the U.S., where do their hearts and bodies belong? In their home country, where…

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Protesting in the name of science: The legacy of China’s May Fourth Movement

Yangyang ChengApril 24, 2019

A hundred years after the rally for “Mr. Science” and “Mr. Democracy,” can the pursuit of scientific truth bring political…

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Thicker than blood

Yangyang ChengMarch 27, 2019

For a young Chinese woman, pursuing a career in the physical sciences implies defying societal expectations of a woman’s body,…

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The Chinese scientist and the foreign tongue

Yangyang ChengFebruary 27, 2019

For generations of Chinese scientists, the cultivating of a foreign tongue was not only a tool to help untangle the…

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For science, or the ‘motherland’? The dilemma facing China’s brightest minds

Yangyang ChengJanuary 30, 2019

Pictured: Tsung-Dao Lee (left) and Chen Ning Yang (right) The fathers of modern Chinese physics survived idealism and endured persecution.…

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Yangyang Cheng

Stargazing Before the Apocalypse

Fault Lines in Humanity

In Sickness and in Health

I Save You in the Clouds

Talking to my mother about Hong Kong

The Holy and the Broken

Hands That Feed

Freedom in Dissent

‘Communism is a faith’

The Highest Exam

My science has no nationality

Protesting in the name of science: The legacy of China’s May Fourth Movement

Thicker than blood

The Chinese scientist and the foreign tongue

For science, or the ‘motherland’? The dilemma facing China’s brightest minds

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