My Work
Here are the latest posts from positions, my Substack blog, and my public GitHub projects. The GitHub projects are mostly exploratory, and much of the Substack is personal in nature.
Writing
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Hong Kong’s First Five-Year Plan
“China is so efficient, it managed to pass 50 years in just 29”
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Hong Kong Under Japanese Occupation & Narratives of Greater East Asia: Glimpses from the Archives
Trilingual Hong Kong newspapers from the 1940s, a patriotic Japanese business man, and Imperial Appropriation of Decolonial Discourse
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The Chongqing Animal Abuse Protest: Latest Info
Police detain dozens of peaceful demonstrators in Chongqing, China, who called for animal protection legislation and legal consequences for a known animal abuser.
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On Explaining China to Americans
From CIA recruits to Chinamaxxers
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The Archivist's Desires and the Indeterminacies of Existence
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Eight Decades Later, Remember This: Never Again for Anyone
On Post-Traumatic Militarism and Fascist Death
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Why Shanghai Has an Airport Public Transportation Problem
Spoilers: it's money, NIMBYs, and did I mention money?
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This is a piece of fiction, and no character, event or location corresponds to real life persons, events or locations.
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If ICE Showed Up Tomorrow Night
A poem
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How to deep-clean your digital device for border inspection
A practical guide for citizens & noncitizens entering the US
Code
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Config files for my GitHub profile.