Yuan Yang (journalist)

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Yuan Yang
Born
Sichuan, China
NationalityBritish
OccupationJournalist
Known for Rethinking Economics, an initiative to promote more relevant economics education in schools
Political party Labour

Yuan Yang is a British-Chinese journalist currently serving as the Financial Times Europe-China correspondent, based in the UK. Yang was born in China and moved to England when she was four. She attended Oxford University where she studied politics, philosophy, and economics. She began her journalism career as a Marjorie Dean intern in the economics section of The Economist .

In 2016, she returned to China as an economics correspondent for the Financial Times. She has served as deputy Beijing bureau chief for the FT, and covered China's tech sector and economy. Yang is also a regular contributor to BBC News . [1]

She is co-founder of Rethinking Economics, which promotes a more relevant economics education curriculum that reflects the real world. [2] [1] [3]

In December 2023, she was announced as the Labour Party prospective parliamentary candidate in Earley and Woodley for the Earley and Woodley Constituency Labour Party [4] at the 2024 general election. [5]

In May 2024, Yang’s book [6] Private Revolutions’ was published by Bloomsbury Publishing [7] . The book is about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about to change beyond recognition.


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References

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