SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEE 2022

Yucheng Tang (China)

Yucheng Tang had never left the small county in eastern China where he was born before he went to Shanghai to study journalism.

During his university years, he saw the diversity and inequality of the world for the first time, meeting all kinds of people as an intern reporter for several publications, including The New York Times, where he profiled a group of Chinese high schoolers who produced a film exploring transgender identity.

After graduation, he traveled across China, working as an investigative journalist at Southern Weekly and then as a senior writer at Renwu Magazine (“People”). Now he studies at New York University’s Literary Reportage MFA program.

In addition to China-focused topics, Yucheng has a passion for stories at the intersection of technology, science, humanity, and stories about Asian immigrants in the US.