Lenora Chu covers Europe out of Berlin for 海角大神. She is an author and longtime journalist who got her start covering the Minnesota state Capitol and Jesse Ventura鈥檚 single term as governor.
With 15 years鈥� experience in the U.S. and China, Lenora鈥檚 reporting interests skew toward the intersection of politics, education and culture 鈥� a passion borne in part of growing up with Chinese parents in America. In 2019, she was named to the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Her first book, 鈥淟ittle Soldiers,鈥� is a narrative account of China鈥檚 education system published by HarperCollins (2017). 鈥淟ittle Soldiers鈥� won the Nautilus Award, ASJA鈥檚 2018 nonfiction prize, and was also shortlisted for Stanford鈥檚 Saroyan International Prize. Translations are forthcoming in half a dozen languages.
As a commentator on China and comparative education, Lenora has appeared on NPR, CBS, BBC, and the CBC, and her articles and op-eds have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Cut, and Business Insider, among others. A former media and management consultant, Lenora holds degrees in engineering and journalism from Stanford and Columbia Universities.
Stories by Lenora Chu
- How Volkswagen slid from German engineering icon to innovation laggard
- Waste not that broken vacuum. Berlin will pay you to repair your stuff.
- Where Nazis first won office, Germans are voting for right-wing extremists
- The Berlin Wall fell 35 years ago. Young east Germans fall for relics of the time.
- Her power in Poland came accidentally. She kept it with stamina 鈥� and Facebook.
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