Joshua Yang is a freelance foreign correspondent reporting on migration, human rights, and authoritarianism across East, West, and South Asia. He has covered Indian laborers in Israel, the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, Chinese tourists in India, and Armenians in Jerusalem, among other topics.
Joshua’s writing appears in Foreign Policy, The Nation, Rest of World, LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. He previously edited nonfiction reviews and essays for The Oxonian Review and The Daily Princetonian.
Joshua studies philosophy at Princeton University. During the 2025–2026 academic year, he will pursue an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge scholar.
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[Reportage]
Vacation’s End, The Caravan, September 2024.
> A continued ban on Chinese tourists in India and deterioriating India-China relations are forcing Mandarin-speaking tour guides to seek other jobs.
> A continued ban on Chinese tourists in India and deterioriating India-China relations are forcing Mandarin-speaking tour guides to seek other jobs.
The Dubious Land Deal Threatening East Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter, The Nation, May 2024.
> A shady land deal with alleged ties to Israeli settlers threatens Jerusalem’s centuries-old Armenian diaspora β and the existence of a pluralistic Jerusalem for Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike.
> A shady land deal with alleged ties to Israeli settlers threatens Jerusalem’s centuries-old Armenian diaspora β and the existence of a pluralistic Jerusalem for Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike.
Israel is Desperate to Replace Palestinian Farmhands, Foreign Policy, April 2024.
> Indian migrant workers who have come to the country after Oct. 7 report enduring months of mistreatment and exploitation.
> Indian migrant workers who have come to the country after Oct. 7 report enduring months of mistreatment and exploitation.
Real Lives, Mekong Review, November 2023.
> Profiling a community archive that keeps Hong Kong stories alive.
> Profiling a community archive that keeps Hong Kong stories alive.
Hong Kong politicians are making a splash on Chinese social media β and finding mainland fans, Rest of World, August 2023.
> Hong Kong leaders are opening accounts on mainland Chinese social media.
> Hong Kong leaders are opening accounts on mainland Chinese social media.
Resilience in community: Marshallese leaders race to fill gaps in aid amid ‘existential threats,’ The Yappie, May 2022.
> Documenting the Marshallese diaspora’s response to climate change and a lingering nuclear legacy. [Supported by a grant from Solutions Journalism Network.]
> Documenting the Marshallese diaspora’s response to climate change and a lingering nuclear legacy. [Supported by a grant from Solutions Journalism Network.]
[Opinion/Analysis]
Hong Kong’s Bureaucrats Don’t Make Good Authoritarians, Foreign Policy, September 2023.
> It turns out the Hong Kong government is really good at self-sabotage.
> It turns out the Hong Kong government is really good at self-sabotage.
[Essays]
A Memoryless Hong Kong, LA Review of Books, February 2024.
> On Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin’s “Among the Braves” and Brian Kern’s “Liberate Hong Kong.”
> On Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin’s “Among the Braves” and Brian Kern’s “Liberate Hong Kong.”
Heartbreak City, The Daily Princetonian, August 2023.
> On a dreamy summer in Hong Kong.
> On a dreamy summer in Hong Kong.
Clinging onto Lunar New Year, The Daily Princetonian, January 2023.
> Reflections on a festive occasion.
> Reflections on a festive occasion.
In the last three years, Joshua has spent time between:
Princeton, NJ [42%]
Palo Alto, CA [12%]
Oxford, UK [12%]
New Delhi [9%]
Hong Kong [9%]
Paris [9%]
Other [5%]
(last updated December 2024)
