LONGFORM

FEATURES

The New York Times
The U.S. and China Are Hurtling Toward a Shared A.I. Future — on our shared precarity in the age of AI

The New Yorker
China’s Involuted Generation — on a viral word for national burnout and ennui
The Larger Meaning of China’s Crackdown on School Tutoring — on the big tech crackdown & common prosperity
The Chinese Farmer Who Live-Streamed Her Life — on Kuaishou & creative expression from the margins

WIRED
Inside China’s Algorithm Registry — on how the government tracks China’s AI landscape
GitHub Is a Free Speech Zone for Covid Information — on the last land of free speech on the Chinese web

The New York Review of Books
Shenzhen Express — on America’s China envy and Shenzhen’s economic might
Planet TikTok — on the history and future of TikTok

Transformer
How Silicon Valley sold Washington an AI race— on how U.S. AI companies have pushed the idea of a race with China

The Boston Globe
Pharma Valley, China’s Kendall Square, is expanding rapidly — on the center of China’s biotech industry
China embraces a revolution in genetic testing — on the rise of consumer DNA tests

The Guardian
China in unfamiliar territory as rust belt cities flatline — on the city of Harbin

Foreign Policy
China’s AI Dreams Aren’t For Everyone — on AI in China’s education system
A Taiwanese Literary Landmark Comes to China’s Venice — on a Taiwanese bookstore navigating censorship
China’s Noveau Riche have Landed on America’s Campuses — on Chinese students in the U.S.

COLUMNS

For Rest of World, I wrote a column called Inside The Walled Garden

Young People in China are Embracing AI Therapy — on the benefits and risks of China’s chatbot therapist boom
China’s vision for a driverless future is miles ahead of everyone else’s — on China’s AV industry
Chinese internet chatter on the Ukraine war is a warped lens — on patriotic stans
Patriotic Pastoral — on the rise and disappearance of China’s darling rural vlogger Li Ziqi
The Rise and Fall of Hupan University — on Jack Ma’s school for entrepreneurs
How China’s Food Delivery Apps Exploit Drivers — on China’s efficient delivery algorithms coming at a human cost
Solidarity now, solidarity through screens — on the online resilience of China’s feminist movement
Waving Goodbye to Weibo — on a blogger’s breakout with a social media platform
Return to the Walled Garden — on digital life in pandemic China
China’s Digital Couch — on therapy going mobile

ESSAYS & CRITICISM

Chaoyang Trap
Boundary Ball — On skirting the lines and pushing for change
Flying Pigs — On VC-jargon and seizing opportunities
Rear Waves — On patriotic positive energy, and cut chives

The Baffler
Between memory & forgetting— On common sense


The Economist
Surveying China’s Live-streaming Economy — On the People’s Republic of Desire
An art gallery buried on China’s Beach — on UCCA Dune

BBC
Why Chinese Rappers Don’t Fight the Power — on patriotic rap

Los Angeles Review of Books
Slow Burn: The Rise of Chinese-American Rapper Bohan Phoenix— on bicultural hip-hop

Off Assignment
Recycling in Paradise — on one summer in Taipei, learning how to recycle and let go

VIDEO

EDITING

A range of reports, news stories and ideas articles I’ve commissioned and edited for the China desk at Rest of World can be found here.