Johanna Costigan is a writer and editor focused on China's technology development and regulation, the party-state's handling of historical narratives in contemporary China, and US-CHINA RELATIONS.
She has written for outlets including the Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel, Foreign Policy, China Books Review, Rest of World, Project Syndicate, ChinaFile, Nikkei Asia, The Diplomat, and others. She is a regular contributor to Forbes. She writes a newsletter on science, technology, and history in China called The Long Game. She has worked on writing and editing projects for the United Nations, Trivium China, the Asia Society Policy Institute, the National Committee on US-China Relations, DigiChina, the Berggruen Institute, and others.
She has an MsC in Contemporary Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford, where her dissertation focused on social media discourse of state-sponsored depictions of China's role in World War II (The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression). She completed the Inter-University Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing and studied abroad at Qingdao University. At Bard College, she double majored in East Asian Studies with a focus on Chinese language and literature and Written Arts.
She has lived, worked, and studied in the People's Republic of China and traveled through Taiwan. She speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese.