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Mengwen Cao

  • Fellow, Magnum Foundation
New York
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Covers:  Immigration, LGBTQ, gender, race
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Mengwen Cao’s Biography

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Mengwen Cao (b. 1990, Hangzhou, China) is a photographer, videographer and multimedia producer based in New York. Her recent work investigates the in-between space of race, gender, and cultural identity. Her projects have been featured on The New York Times, NPR, Mashable, BUST, Foreign Policy, The Guardian etc. She has participated in international exhibitions like Photoville, Jimei Arles, Lianzhou Foto Festival.
She was a recent fellow at the Magnum Foundation. She graduated from New Media N…

Mengwen Cao’s Journalist Portfolio

Tears for Ears

Tears for Ears

For many people, getting your ear pierced is a rite of passage that you're too young to remember. For others,…

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Wigstock, 'An Iconic Piece of Drag History,' Lets Its Roots Show At 2018 Revival

Wigstock, 'An Iconic Piece of Drag History,' Lets Its Roots Show At 2018 Revival

One late night in the spring of 1984, a group of sauced drag queens leaving Pyramid Club in Manhattan came up…

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Coming Out to My Parents in China by Video

Coming Out to My Parents in China by Video

Before showing her parents a video she had prepared, Mengwen Cao had faith that they would understand. Still,…

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Asian, queer and dancing defiance: 'Everything we do now is resistance'

Asian, queer and dancing defiance: 'Everything we do now is resistance'

Lunar New Year was a chance to celebrate without 'white nonsense' and 'toxic masculinity' that felt all the m…

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Articles

A Cadmium Sulfide–Cadmium Molybdate Heterojunction for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production

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By Mengwen Cao, Haiyan Yang, Zhiqiang Jiang
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Conflicts of Interest The authors declare conflicts of interest. Data Availability Statement The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. Supporting Information Filename Description cphc70323-sup-0001-SuppData-S1.pdf2.3 MB Supplementary Material References 1, , , et al., “A Review of Efficient Photocatalytic Water Splitting for Hydrogen Production,” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 206 (2024): 114863.
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The Amp

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By Gladys Lou, Kathy Ou, Sophia Park, Mengwen Cao
| Asian American Arts Alliance Verified
From a poignant feature on mental health starring Lucy Liu, to a dark comedy about navigating through grief, to a dedicated series of short films, check out some of the AANHPI and Asian Diasporic stories at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
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BIG GAY ICE CREAM 5

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By Mengwen Cao
| Buffalo News Verified
FILE — Doug Quint, a founder of Big Gay Ice Cream, at the East Village shop in New York, June 16, 2019. The seven stores were decorated with unicorns, rainbows and other gay emblems — the East Village shop has closed and only one remains. (Mengwen Cao/The New York Times)
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Awards

Lit List

2018 - Photography

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