Jiayang Fan is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she melds political, cultural, and personal perspectives to cover China and U.S.-China relations. In recent years, she has written about hospice care in China, the Hong Kong protests, JD.com’s impact on rural China, the Chinese beauty industry, and much more. This spring, in a popular episode of The Daily, a podcast run by The New York Times, she lucidly discussed the discrimination that Asian Americans have faced during the Covid-19 pande