Education
She grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and attended National University of Singapore for undergraduate studies.
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She grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and attended National University of Singapore for undergraduate studies.
Mei Fong"s forthcoming book about China"s one-child policy, One Child: The Past And Future Of China’s Most Radical Experiment, was published as a Kindle e-book on November 3, 2015 and will released as a hard cover book (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ) on February 1, 2016. After working for The New Paper (Singapore), she went on to attend Columbia University"s School of International and Public Affairs and received a Masters of International Affairs degree in 2001. While working at Forbes Digital in 2000 she created the Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list, which is still published every year by the business magazine.
Fong joined The Wall Street Journal full-time in 2001, and in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, served in the unusual capacity of City Hall reporter covering the aftermath and recovery of New York City.
She worked in Hong Kong as a correspondent for the Journal from 2003-2006, and in Beijing from 2006-2009, where she covered economic development, China"s consumers and the 2008 Summer Olympics. According to the Associated Press story on the purchase, she, along with six Journal colleagues, "wrote a letter to the board of Dow Jones & Company saying they fear that under Murdoch"s leadership writers would be pressured to soften their reporting on China."
In 2012, Fong was said to be on sabbatical leave from The Wall Street Journal.
In 2009, she joined the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism as an adjunct professor of journalism, overseeing the international internship program for journalism students in Hong Kong. She received a book contract in 2013 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to write about China"s one-child policy and its global implications.
The book One Child was released in November 2015 as an ebook, and will be released in hardback in January 2015.
In 2014, she joined the New America Foundation as the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow. She has been a contributor to the Los Angeles Times, Salon, The Atlantic and National Public Radio.
In April 2007, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting as part of the bureau"s "sharply edged reports on the adverse impact of China"s booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution." She is "believed to be the first Malaysian.