Below are selected samples of my articles appeared on publications.
2021
Tough-on-China Joe? Why America’s Mistrust of Beijing Is Here To Stay
VICE World News, January 2021
2020
How a Closeted Police Officer Created the World’s Largest Gay Dating App
RADII, June 2020
Sending a red signal
Index on Censorship, June 2020
Coronavirus and US-China tensions leave students abroad short on options
South China Morning Post, June 2020
US nationalism’s next casualty: Chinese international students
Lausan, June 2020
‘Your mom is dead’: The origins of the Chinese internet slang NMSL
SupChina, April 2020
别让排外主义像病毒一样侵蚀我们的社会
FT中文网 [Financial Times Chinese], April 2020
分离与和解：留美学生经历的两场新冠疫情
FT中文网 [Financial Times Chinese], April 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic rages, Chinese returnees find a hostile welcome at home
South China Morning Post, March 2020
2019
A Farewell to Nanyuan, China’s Oldest Airport
RADII, September 2019
The impossible politics of doing business in ‘China’
SupChina, August 2019
Why I go out of my way to log back into the Chinese internet
Inkstone, July 2019
Why the Chinese internet has a hate speech problem
TechNode, April 2019
Who’s Chinese? The Farmer-Turned-Livestreaming Star Who’s Challenging China’s Ideas of Racial Identity
RADII, April 2019
The Man Who Took China to Space
Foreign Policy, March 2019
To earn points on China’s little red app, I downloaded a cheat tool from GitHub
SupChina, March 2019
Chinese state media editorials, written by no one ever
SupChina, March 2019
License to Nil: Why China’s Tourists Aren’t Able to Drive Abroad
Sixth Tone, January 2019
2018
We need to stop equating WeChat with the Chinese internet
TechNode, June 2018
How Luckin Coffee is reforming China’s coffee culture
TechNode, July 2018
China should stop exaggerating its technological advancements, says state-owned newspaper editor
SupChina, June 2018
Beijing high school students promote LGBT awareness with t-shirt campaign
SupChina, May 2018
‘Make Americans call us daddy’: Nationalist Chinese rap provokes Penn State CSSA response
SupChina, April 2018