Chang Che joins The New York Times Asia Team

Chang Che

Chang Che caught our attention as a rival, working as a freelancer for The New Yorker, The Washington Post and The Atlantic. Now we are excited to have him on our team as an Asia technology reporter, focusing on the corporate, social and political side of tech in China.

Chang joins us from SupChina, a China-focused news publication, where he was a staff writer, covering everything from Beijing’s tech crackdowns to the rise of Greek and Latin courses in Chinese higher education. He was also a prolific freelance writer with pieces on geopolitics, business, and books.

Fluent in Mandarin and Japanese, Chang has worked with some of the best journalists covering China. He wrote about China’s Silicon Valley for The Wire, the startup run by David Barboza, and he’s done research for Evan Osnos of The New Yorker.

He didn’t always plan on becoming a journalist. Chang has been a consultant at Analysis Group, working on corporate mergers and acquisitions; a data analyst at Amazon in Tokyo, and a manga translator of Japan’s best-selling Shonen Jump magazine.

He is a founder of the Oxford Political Review and a former editor-in-chief of Oxford’s magazine of arts and letters, the Oxford Review of Books. Chang graduated from the University of Oxford with a masters of philosophy in political theory and from Princeton University with a bachelors in comparative literature.

For those who follow the college acapella scene, he was a crooner for the Princeton Tigertones. Channeling his inner James Taylor, he sings a soaring rendition of “Shower the People” on the group’s debut Spotify album.

Chang will head to Seoul in September.