Tech
Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them
The Guardian, November 2, 2022
The AI startup erasing call center worker accents: is it fighting bias – or perpetuating it?
The Guardian, August 24, 2022
Can ‘chief vibes officers’ keep things positive amid the crypto collapse?
The Guardian, July 8, 2022
Jay-Z’s bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project: ‘I don’t have money to be losing’
The Guardian, June 17, 2022
‘This can’t be real’: Grubhub promotion turns New York City restaurants into a ‘war zone’
The Guardian, May 19, 2022
What did i just buy? I tried to use New York’s first NFT vending machine
The Guardian, February 28, 2022
E-bike batteries are catching on fire way too often
Curbed (New York Magazine), January 25, 2022
Labor
How delivery workers won their first charging hub
Curbed (New York Magazine), October 7, 2022
How Microsoft’s union agreement could shape the rest of the tech industry
FastCompany, June 15, 2022
Gig workers of the world are uniting
The Nation, June 1, 2021
The workers who sued Uber and won
Dissent Magazine, May 5, 2021
What Nomadland gets wrong about gig labor
Vulture (New York Magazine), February 22, 2021
Can American labor survive Prop 22?
The Nation, November 20, 2020
I am a New York food courier. Right now, it’s worse than you think
The Guardian, April 3, 2020
Built environment
What happens when you house more than 1,000 refugees on a cruise ship?
Curbed, November 18, 2022
‘There had to be somewhere better’: New York criticized for building migrant tents in flood-prone lot
The Guardian, September 28, 2022
‘No more car for me’: will a $23 toll finally rid Manhattan of gridlock?
The Guardian, August 11, 2022
‘We have to make ourselves seen’: the New York rent strikers fighting eviction
The Guardian, February 9, 2022
Mold, leaks, rot: How Brad Pitt’s post-Katrina housing project went horribly wrong
The Guardian, February 3, 2022
I visited Donald Trump’s state park and it’s not a park
The Guardian, September 29, 2020
Asian America
The other New York: how Republicans made ‘shocking’ gains in the empire state
The Guardian, November 28, 2022
They built ‘The Woks of Life’ from home. Now they’re cooking things up from a new one
Dwell, November 15, 2022
Why one Chinatown mini-mall languishes while another thrives
Curbed (New York Magazine), October 31, 2022
Featured in One Great Story, New York Magazine’s reading recommendation newsletter.
‘The death is too much’: New York’s Little Pakistan gathers aid for flood victims
The Guardian, September 6, 2022
Training the next generation of shop owners is key to Chinatown’s survival
Curbed (New York Magazine), August 5, 2022
Jing Fong couldn’t survive. Will Manhattan’s Chinatown?
The Nation, March 8, 2021
Asia
Hong Kong and neoliberalism
Verso, The China Question, November 2022
Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’ – here’s what that really looks like
The Guardian, May 12, 2022
In Hong Kong, we thought we had more time
The Nation, January 8, 2021
The unraveling of Thailand’s national myth
The Nation, October 28, 2020
Did US lobbying backfire for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement?
The Nation, September 14, 2020
The infinite heartbreak of loving Hong Kong
The Nation, May 23, 2020
Translated into Chinese for The News Lens. Featured on Apple Daily.
The WHO ignores Taiwan. The world pays the price.
The Nation, April 3, 2020
Translated into Chinese for The News Lens. Featured on Apple Daily.
The left’s role in the Hong Kong uprising
Dissent Magazine, November 27, 2019
Hong Kong’s fight for life
Dissent Magazine, August 8, 2019
One of Dissent’s most-read pieces in 2019. Translated into Chinese for The Owl, German for Der Freitag and Polish for Krytyka Polityczna.
Art
Night in Hong Kong
Dissent Magazine, Spring 2022 issue
Robin Rhode
Julia Stoschek Collection, February 4, 2021
Without the human: Jungjin Lee’s Echo
ArtAsiaPacific, July 29, 2019
Issac Lam’s photos are dreamlike tributes to Hong Kong youth culture
Still / Loud, February 16, 2019
Review: Rinko Kawauchi’s Halo
ArtAsiaPacific, November 3, 2017
Mysteries along the Hong Kong-China border
Still / Loud, August 6, 2017
Review: Ho Fan, Portrait of Hong Kong
ArtAsiaPacific, June 27 2017
To live this freely: in memory of Ren Hang
Still / Loud, March 4, 2017
Translated into Chinese for Initium.