Ling Wang is a writer and researcher working at the intersection of population policy, reproductive ethics, and fertility culture.
She previously served as a senior journalist at China Business News (YICAI), where she spent over a decade reporting on China’s demographic transformation, family planning system, and the lived experiences of individuals and families under state-enforced birth control policies. Her investigative reporting and commentary contributed to shaping public discussion around fertility policy adjustments in China.
Wang is the author of Beijing Pregnancy Stories, a documentary-style work based on extensive field interviews, which offers a rare narrative account of reproductive experiences under China’s family planning regime. Her writing combines firsthand reporting with ethical reflection, exploring how decades of institutional intervention have reshaped attitudes toward life, birth, and family.
Her current research focuses on fertility ethics, the cultural and moral dimensions of low fertility, and the long-term impact of coercive or semi-coercive population policies on individual decision-making and social values. She is particularly interested in how historical policy environments continue to influence contemporary fertility intentions, both within China and among Chinese diaspora communities.
She is currently a Visiting Scholar at Duke University. She also serves as a Corresponding Fellow at the Gibbons Institute for Human Ecology, The Catholic University of America.