Ye Charlotte Ming is a journalist, writer, and artist, raised in China and based in Germany. Her work explores themes of culture, history, migration, and identity.

Since 2018, Ming has contributed in-depth articles on cultural heritage, post-colonialism, migration, and social justice as an independent journalist. Her work has appeared in publications including National Geographic, Time, South China Morning Post Magazine, Die Taz, Atlas Obscura, World Press Photo Witness, Sixth Tone, and Tencent News.

Working across mediums and disciplines, Ming wrote and narrated Remembering: An Antiracist Audio-Walk in 2023, a 90-minute audio tour tracing Germany’s colonial history in China through Berlin’s urban landscape. The interactive walk has been experienced by hundreds of high school students in Germany.

Ming also co-founded Far & Near, a Substack newsletter with over 3,500 subscribers, where she and her colleagues Beimeng Fu and Yan Cong cover visual arts, journalism, and social issues in China. The newsletter has been recommended by Semafor and Sinocism.

She has delivered lectures, workshops and walking tours on colonialism, media and storytelling at various art, media, education and public institutions including Gropius Bau, Goethe Institute, Dekoloniale Berlin, Tsinghua University, VII Foundation and Robert Bosch Alumni Center. She is a recipient of the Robert Bosch Crossing Borders grant and the Kim Wall Memorial Fund by International Women’s Media Foundation.

Previously based in New York, Ming worked as a journalist and visual editor at TIME Magazine’s photography department and at Getty Images.

Ming completed the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2023. She holds an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (2014) and a B.A. from Colorado State University-Pueblo (2012).

Selected events

2025

Artist Tour, “Dekoloniale - What Remains?”, Museum Nikolaikirche, Stadtmuseum Berlin

Artist Tour, “Dekoloniale - What Remains?” for Bard-College Berlin.

Talk: Power and Perspective in Colonial Imagery, Goethe Institut-Beijing

Talk: Decolonial Writing and Creative Practices, Blau Haus Stiftung

2024

Screening: Between the Waves, Decolonial Visions in Diaspora Cinema, Sinema Transtopia

Performative Workshop: Colonial Translocations of Plants and Taste, Gropius Bau

Walking Tour: Unforgetting: German Colonial Past in China, German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Talk: Anti-Asian Racism in Germany, Bildungsnetzwerk China

Walking Tour: Bildungsnetzwerk China x Bosch International Alumni Center Berlin

Workshop: How (Not) to Report About Africa/Asia, Bard College-Berlin

Lecture: German Colonial Past in China, Eric-Kandel-Gymnasium Ahrensburg (200 students in attendance)

2023

Keynote Lecture: Conference (Post-)kolonialismus, Bildungszentrum-Ritterude, Bundesamt für Familie und zivilgesellschaftliche Aufgaben. (100 educators in attendance).

Workshop: How (Not) to Report About Africa/Asia, Dekoloniale Festival x Universität der Künste Berlin Hybrid Plattform

Workshop: Worlds of Spice, a Food Workshop with Tao Leigh Goffe, Dekoloniale Festival x Universität der Künste Berlin Hybrid Plattform

Festival Moderator: Dekoloniale Festival 13-17 September

2022

Lecture: The State of Visual Storytelling in China, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University

Lecture: The State of Visual Storytelling in China, VII Foundation

2-Day Workshop: How to Visualize Marginalised Communities, Goethe Institute-Beijing, 2021

2019

Lecture: Visual Journalism, Communication University of Zhejiang and the University of Bolton, 2019