Curbed • January 2023 Does New York’s Chinatown Really Need an Arch? New York has approved funding for the city's first Chinatown gate. Not everyone is happy.
The Guardian • December 2022 ‘Freedom in China is precious’: Tiananmen Square protest veteran salutes new generation For Chinese former democracy leaders, it’s been emotional to watch mass protests erupt anew.
The Guardian • November 2022 The other New York: how Republicans made ‘shocking’ gains in the empire state Why the midterm "red wave" surfaced in immigrant-heavy southern Brooklyn.
Dwell • November 2022 They built ‘The Woks of Life’ from home. Now they’re cooking things up from a new one It feels like part of a modern Chinese American fantasy.
Curbed • October 2022 Why one Chinatown mini-mall languishes while another thrives How do you save a community mall when its intended community is gone?
Curbed • January 2022 E-bike batteries are setting a record-breaking number of fires every year The people most in danger are New York City's delivery workers.
The Nation • March 2021 Jing Fong couldn’t survive. Will Manhattan’s Chinatown? Was it the pandemic that felled Jing Fong, or policies that have made the neighborhood vulnerable ?
The Nation • September 2020 Did US Lobbying efforts backfire for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement? A Hong Kong activist defends his Capitol Hill photo-ops.