Qing Wang is an award-winning journalist from China. She has spent over a decade in the field reporting on global political and economic stories, with a cross-border, human-centered perspective. She is the co-founder and co-host of The Weirdo Podcast (不合时宜), a leading independent Chinese-language podcast with over one million followers, dedicated to amplifying progressive and non-conformist voices.
Previously, she served as Chief International Correspondent at Jiemian News and as a senior reporter at Radio Netherlands Worldwide. She also taught at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2023, after being selected for its Media Professionals Residency Program. Her work has appeared on the BBC, Caixin Media, Initium Media, among others. She holds a BA in Literature from Peking University and a MA in Area Studies from Leiden University.
Currently she is also the China and the World Fellow at Asia Society Switzerland, and a Non-Resident Honorary Fellow on Chinese Society at the Asia Society Policy Institute(ASPI)’s Center for China Analysis. Her current work explores the cultural and emotional transformations shaping contemporary China, at both the personal and collective levels, in a global context.