Kiki Tianqi Zhao is a freelance writer based in China and the U.S. From 2012 to 2017, she was a journalist based in the Beijing bureaus of The Financial Times and then The New York Times. She holds an M.A. from Yale University Council of East Asian Studies, and a B.A. from the Communication University of China. She is currently affiliated with the Fairbank Center For Chinese Studies as an Associate in Research.