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 26 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Te-Ping Chen — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
  3. ^ kanopi_admin (2021-02-11). "The PEN Ten: An Interview with Te-Ping Chen". PEN America. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
  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 2025-08-27.
  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 2021-07-29.
  12. ^ Kranc, Lauren (2021-07-09). "Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Is, Yet Again, Unsurprisingly Strong". Esquire. Retrieved 2021-07-29.