Essays & Fragments
field notes for Cha Journal / June 2023
home leaves home for Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal / Feb 2023
once more with feeling for Asia Art Archive’s Ideas Journal / 13 Jul 2022
On airports, hospitals, and prisons in Hong Kong’s new dystopia for New York Magazine / 13 Jun 2022
On the crisis of identity at The University of Hong Kong for Foreign Policy / 22 May 2022
This is always the last time you’ll ever be here for Evergreen Review / Feb 2022
On first love, nostalgia & Kowloon City for Mekong Review / Feb 2022 (print)
Junk Boats and English Boys: Damon Albarn’s Hong Kong for Cicada Mag / 25 Nov 2020
On protest trauma in 2019 (and Keanu Reeves) for the New York Times / 27 Nov 2019 (print)
Hong Kong protests & parallel universes for the New York Times / 30 Aug 2019 (print)
The dangerous romance of Hong Kong protests for Foreign Policy / 1 Jul 2019
On copaganda, and the fraught relationship between cops & protesters in Hong Kong for New Statesman / 16 Jul 2019
Jenny Zhang’s female gaze for LA Review of Books China Channel / 9 Jan 2019
On Hong Kong & other cities without cafes for The Offing / 20 Mar 2018
Features & Profiles
“Tear gas on one street and civilians walking on another.” for The California Sunday Magazine / 14 Nov 2019 (print)
Wellsaid wants to live forever for Still / Loud / 4 May 2019
Leung Wing Lai: The gentle anarchist for Still / Loud / 16 Feb 2019
Villagers in the New Territories are fighting to preserve their way of life—through music for Still / Loud / 15 Apr 2018
Remembering MCB, the magazine that inspired a generation of music lovers for Still / Loud / 25 Jul 2017
Why Nicholas Wong is ‘resigned’ about Hong Kong poetry for Still / Loud / 4 Nov 2017
David Boring’s debut album is a portrait of Hong Kong’s toxic dystopia for Still / Loud / 30 Apr 2017