Media
SELECTED PUBLIC ARTICLES
Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (Dec 22). “Divide or Unite? American Leftist Organizations at a Crossroads.” Initium Media. In Chinese. https://theinitium.com/article/20221222-opinion-reflection-left-wing-us/
Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (June 30). “We Have Never been Progressive? Street War of the American Anti-abortion Movement.” the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_18798577
Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (May 5). “The Undercurrents and Rebellion of the American Right after Capitol Hill.” the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_17938955
Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (Feb 20). “No Games, No Gig: Gig Game Workers in China.” Initium Media. In Chinese. https://theinitium.com/article/20220220-game-on-labor/
Zhao, Mengyang. 2021 (July 28). “Black Lives Matter a Year Later: A Fragile Coalition and Rightwing Backlash.” the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_13762409
Zhao, Mengyang. 2021 (May 16). “Devaluation, Invisibility and Stalled Struggles: Care Labor in the Chasms of Future Work.” the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_12696705
Zhao, Mengyang. 2021 (Feb 27). “UK Supreme Court Rules that Uber Drivers are Workers, Can We Call it a Victory for Gig Workers?” the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_11480239
Zhao, Mengyang. 2021 (Jan 14). “Can Google’s Minority Union Become a Template for Tech Worker Activism in the Future?” Initium Media. In Chinese. https://theinitium.com/article/20210114-opinion-google-labour-union-explainer/
Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (Nov 14). “Facing Down the Hong Kong Protests’ Right-wing Turn and a New Afterword.” Lausan. https://lausan.hk/2020/facing-down-the-hong-kong-movements-right-wing-turn-afterword/
Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (Nov 11). “Are Latinxs Really Shifting Right? Debunking the Myth of Latinx Vote in the U.S.” Initium Media. In Chinese. https://theinitium.com/article/20201111-opinion-latinx-in-us/
Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (Sept 16). “Play as Work: Are Chinese Game Workers Earning Easy Money or Struggling Hopelessly?” Masses. In Chinese. https://bit.ly/3DaOd9c
Zhao, Mengyang. 2020. “Chinese Diaspora Activism and the Future of International Solidarity.” Made in China Journal 5(2): 97-101. https://madeinchinajournal.com/2020/09/14/chinese-diaspora-activism-and-the-future-of-international-solidarity/
Zhao, Mengyang. 2021 (June 7). “The History and Organization of the Black Power Movement.” the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_8175114
Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (March 27). “The American Workplace During The Pandemic.” the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_6698738
SELECTED ENGLISH MEDIA APPEARANCES
2023 (Feb 16) “Heartbroken Gamers Mourn World of Warcraft’s Shutdown in China.” Rest of World.
2022 (Dec 8) “Scholars Look at Ramifications from ‘Zero COVID’ Protests in China.” Penn Today.
2022 (Nov 30) “China Protests Mushroom Around the World.” The Wall Street Journal.
2022 (June 3) “The Radical, Transnational Legacy of Tiananmen Workers.” The Nation.
2022 (March 8) “From the ‘Chinese National Character’ Debates of Yesterday to the Anti-China Foreign Policy of Today.” Made in China.
2011 (Sept 24) “A Chinese ‘Game Companion’ Platform’s Phantom Shutdown.” Protocol.
2021 (Sept 10) “Chinese Tech Giants are Forming Unions. It’s not What You Think.” Protocol.
2021 (July 20) “China’s New Gaming Underclass.” Protocol.
2021 (Feb 1) “Worker Deaths Put Big Tech in China Under Scrutiny.” The New York Times.
2019 (Aug 28) “Thwarted at Home, Can China’s Feminists Rebuild a Movement Abroad?” ChinaFile.
2019 (April 17) “Office Workers in China Organise a Rare Online Labour Movement.” The Economist.
2019 (March 21) “After New Zealand Massacre, Islamophobia Spreads on Chinese Social Media.” Columbia Journalism Review.
SELECTED PODCASTS
2022 (May 30) "The Young Generation that Play-to-earn." Call Operator 接线员. In Chinese
2022 (Jan 26) "Reimagining Social Relationship: Why Do We Need Mutual Care beyond Kinship." GraveTalk Podcast 井号键. In Chinese
2021 (Sept 2) "How to Rehearse a Caring Future through a Game." neo-Portal 传送门. In Chinese
2021 (Aug 15) "Platform Workers in the Video Game Industry." Newslab Podcast 新闻实验室. In Chinese
2020 (Dec 20) "Is There a Gap between Game Streaming and Doctoral Study." 365 days of finding my path 迷惘青年寻路记. In Chinese
2020 (Dec 14) "Asian and Latinx Immigrants: Political Imagination of Identity. " Veitgeist 唯理对谈. In Chinese
2020 (June 6) "Resisting Injustice from Black Lives Matter." Stochastic Volatility 随机波动. In Chinese