Publications

This is an incomplete¹ list of things I’ve written—as a freelance journalist and writer—over the past years.

“Esperanto, China’s Surprisingly Prominent Linguistic Subculture is Slowly Dying Out.” RADII. June 23, 2021.
“King of Fairy Tales, King of Posts,” on the online persona of Chinese children’s book author Zheng Yuanjie. Chaoyang Trap. May 2021.
“Rich Kids English Police, and IG’s Chinese Meme Boom.” Chaoyang Trap. March 2021.
“Tough-on-China Joe? Why America’s Mistrust of Beijing Is Here To Stay.” VICE World News. January 2021.

“How a Closeted Police Officer Created the World’s Largest Gay Dating App.” RADII. June 2020.
“Sending a red signal,” on China’s pandemic health codes. 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.
“As the coronavirus pandemic rages, Chinese returnees find a hostile welcome at home.” South China Morning Post. March 2020.

“A Farewell to Nanyuan, China’s Oldest Airport.” RADII. September 2019.
“Why I go out of my way to log back into the Chinese internet.” Inkstone, South China Morning Post. 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,” on Caltech physicist Hsue-Shen Tsien. Foreign Policy. March 2019.
“To earn points on China’s little red app, I downloaded a cheat tool from GitHub,” on Xuexi Qiangguo. 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.

“We need to stop equating WeChat with the Chinese internet.” TechNode. June 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.

The list is incomplete for three reasons: 1) I don’t do a very good job at updating static pages on my website; 2) I have temporarily worked at media organizations, where I would often publish several news stories a day; 3) I have been writing for a public audience since I was 13 years old. As you might imagine, there are articles of mine on the internet that I now find embarassing. ↩︎
I worked at Caixin Global in Beijing over the summer. You can find a list of my reporting here. ↩︎