Frank Zhou

Bio

Frank Zhou writes for the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies about international relations, digital humanities research, and all things China. His reporting on young voters and students has won national awards from the Public Media Journalists Association, Associated Collegiate Press, Society of Professional Journalists, and more. He is the founding host and producer of The Harvard Crimson’s flagship news podcast, Newstalk (100+ countries, 2024 ACP National Podcast of the Year), and former co-president of North America’s largest student-run conference on U.S.-China relations, the Harvard College China Forum. His translations are published by the University of British Columbia’s Chinese Film Classics Project, and his photography is published by The Boston Globe and WBUR. He is the youngest member of the producing team on former New York Times Beijing Bureau Chief Jane Perlez’s award-wining podcast, Face-Off: The U.S. vs China.

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• Selected Writing and Translations:
  1. “A Pilgrimage, Twenty-Five Zhejiang Villages, and Gorillas in Rwanda” | Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
  2. “Abortion rights amendment could motivate young Ohio voters this November” | NPR station WVXU
     • Winner, 2024 National Public Media Journalists Association Awards, National Student News Feature
  3. “Affirmative Action Falls: Inside the Protests at Harvard and Washington, D.C.” | The Harvard Crimson
     • Winner, 2024 National Associated Collegiate Press Podcast of the Year, 2023 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards
  4. “The Stories We Tell: Can the U.S. and China Reset their Conflicting Narratives?” | Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
  5. “History of China at Harvard: Historical Connections” | Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
  6. “Digital Tales: Ming Poets Had Social Networks Too. Now, We Can Find Them.” | Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
  7. “Lessons from the First Digital China Bootcamp.” | Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
  8. “Andover’s Atlantis” | Andover Magazine
  9. An Untold Tale of the Borderlands | UBC Chinese Film Classics
  10. “Dream Big, Dream Blue: Student Visions of Teaching and Learning” | Tang Institute
  11. Woman Warrior White Rose | UBC Chinese Film Classics
  12. “Make a Christian Out of Him”: Muscular Christian Education and 1900-1940 Chinese Students at the American Academy | Chinese Students at Andover Project
  13. “White Flowers, After ‘Moonlight Over The Lotus Pond’ (1927), Zhu Ziqing” | Sineθ Magazine
  14. “Bird Call” | Ruby Magazine
  15. Woman Warrior of the Wild River | UBC Chinese Film Classics

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• Selected Media Appearances:
  1. ‘She’s a blessing to us all’: 18-year-old chess prodigy is special in more ways than one | USA Today
  2. Tales from the Archives | Fay Magazine
  3. Frank Zhou: 30 stories across 3 years | The Phillipian
  4. “Climate and The Curriculum” | Andover Magazine
  5. Documenting the Pandemic | Fay Magazine

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• Selected Readings and Events:
  1. “Breaking Into Audio and Video” | Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Conference
  2. “Bloodsongs” | Anne Frank Sapling Prize | Cosponsored by the University of Iowa, Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature, Anne Frank Center USA, and more
  3. The Vers(es) in Diversity: Chinese Students at Phillips Academy | Phillips Academy
  4. Getting an Early Start on Research | With Professors Tom Mullaney (Stanford) and Christopher Rea (UBC)
  5. Adventuring: A Cross-Generational and Cross-Cultural Conversation | Center for Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas

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Research Interests: China – U.S. Foreign Policy, Audio Journalism, Environmental Policy