1. Jiayang Fan was born in Chongqing and immigrated to the United States at the age of seven.
26 Facts About Jiayang Fan
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Jiayang Fan has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2016.
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Jiayang Fan's works include cultural and political commentary, personal history, and food critique.
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Jiayang Fan subsequently divorced him, and was left unemployed with only 200 dollars.
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Jiayang Fan's mother believed that living in a wealthy neighborhood would be necessary for her daughter to attend a good public school.
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Jiayang Fan attended Greenwich Academy as the only Asian student in her year.
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Jiayang Fan spent a lot of time watching CCTV, the state channel of China, with her mother, at the house she worked.
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Jiayang Fan studied Philosophy and English at Williams College, an elite liberal arts college, and graduated in 2006.
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Jiayang Fan's mother had since then frequently visited the ICU and once stayed in a nursing home.
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Jiayang Fan became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 2016.
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Jiayang Fan was the first China-born staff reporter at the magazine, and became its third writer known for reporting on China, along with Peter Hessler and Evan Osnos.
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Jiayang Fan's works include cultural and political commentary, personal history, and food critique.
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Jiayang Fan went to Hong Kong during the 2019 Anti-Extradition Amendment Bill Movement as a reporter for The New Yorker.
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Jiayang Fan joined the rally and offered saline solution for those who were attacked by the police with tear gas.
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Jiayang Fan had to show her press identification, passport, and business ID to prove that she was a reporter from the United States.
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Jiayang Fan's comments caused mainland Chinese to attack her on the internet, accusing her as a traitor to China.
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When Jiayang Fan worked for The New Yorker as a fact-checker, she had the opportunity to visit restaurants in New York City; that was when she started to write food critique for the magazine.
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Jiayang Fan's writings include Salon de Ning, a high-end Shanghai-style rooftop bar in the Peninsula New York, Sichuan restaurant Mala Project, and California-Mediterranean composite Covina.
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In NYMag's food section Grub Street Diet, Jiayang Fan wrote about a food diary where she recounted that "food is our language" between her mother and her.
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Meanwhile, the two health aides who had been taking care of Jiayang Fan's mother were not permitted to stay in the facility.
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Jiayang Fan tweeted with a screenshot of the FaceTime video and mentioned Mitchell Katz, the president of New York City Health and Hospitals:.
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Jiayang Fan heard from state senator Brian Benjamin, whose district includes Harlem, as well as a prominent Twitter personality who knew Mitchell Katz and offered to text him.
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The day after her mother's aide returned to the hospital, Jiayang Fan received a Twitter private message telling her that she was being targeted on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform.
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The letter criticized the "non-behaving American politicians" who led to the COVID-19 outbreak in the US, and made reference to Jiayang Fan's previous reporting on Cixin Liu.
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The letter said that, the fact that Jiayang Fan made the analogy between Earth-Trisolaris in The Three-Body Problem and China-US is "not worth commenting" and reflective of her view on China and US-China relations.
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Jiayang Fan analyzed the reasons why Asian Americans feel powerless in the battle over elite high schools in New York.