Te-Ping Chen

Te-Ping Chen is an American journalist and author, currently residing in Philadelphia. ^[1]

Chen is currently a reporter for the Wall Street Journal , covering workers and workplace culture. ^{[2] [3]} From 2014 to 2018, she was a Beijing-based China correspondent for the Journal. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]} She first joined the Journal in 2012. ^[8]

Her great-grandfather was a poet and journalist from Guangxi. ^{[9] [10]}

Her debut story collection Land of Big Numbers ^[11] was included in Barack Obama's 2021 summer reading list. ^[12]

Books

• Land of Big Numbers (2021)

References

1. "Te-Ping Chen". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
2. "Te-Ping Chen — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 27, 2025.
3. kanopi_admin (February 11, 2021). "The PEN Ten: An Interview with Te-Ping Chen". PEN America. Retrieved August 27, 2025.
4. "A Journalist's Eye Enlivens 'Land Of Big Numbers'". NPR.org.
5. "Review: The comforts of oppression, in a journalist's wildly inventive fiction". Los Angeles Times. February 5, 2021.
6. Wallace, David (April 2019). "Te-Ping Chen on the Nihilism of the Internet". The New Yorker.
7. Inquirer, Patrick Rapa, For The (February 2, 2021). "Philly writer Te-Ping Chen has one of the year's big debut books, out now". www.inquirer.com.
8. "Interview with Te-Ping Chen". Write or Die Magazine. Retrieved August 27, 2025.
9. Riillo, Maria (February 11, 2021). "The PEN Ten: An Interview with Te-Ping Chen".
10. Chen, Te-Ping (March 7, 2019). "'China Could Have Been a Very Different Country.' A Search for Family Reveals a Lost Moment". WSJ– via www.wsj.com.
11. "A Journalist's Eye Enlivens 'Land Of Big Numbers'". NPR.org. Retrieved July 29, 2021.
12. Kranc, Lauren (July 9, 2021). "Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Is, Yet Again, Unsurprisingly Strong". Esquire. Retrieved July 29, 2021.

External links

• TE-PING CHEN