SELECTED ENGLISH MEDIA APPEARANCES
2025 (Jul 9) “Anti-fraud Tool or Sexist Game? ‘Gold Digger’ Dating Simulation Game Stirs Debate in China.” CNA.
2023 (Mar 14) “Who, What, Why: Zoe Zhao on Emerging Digital Labor, What Counts as Work.” Penn Today.
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 (Jun 3) “The Radical, Transnational Legacy of Tiananmen Workers.” The Nation.
2022 (Mar 8) “From the ‘Chinese National Character’ Debates of Yesterday to the Anti-China Foreign Policy of Today.” Made in China.
2021 (Sep 24) “A Chinese ‘Game Companion’ Platform’s Phantom Shutdown.” Protocol.
2021 (Sep 10) “Chinese Tech Giants are Forming Unions. It’s not What You Think.” Protocol.
2021 (Jul 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 (Apr 17) “Office Workers in China Organise a Rare Online Labour Movement.” The Economist.
2019 (Mar 21) “After New Zealand Massacre, Islamophobia Spreads on Chinese Social Media.” Columbia Journalism Review.
SELECTED PODCASTS
2025 (Dec 23) “The Right-Wing Multitude in the MAGA Era: How Epstein and Israel Have Fractured Trump’s Base” 907 Newsroom 编辑部. In Chinese
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 (Sep 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 (Jun 6) "Resisting Injustice from Black Lives Matter." Stochastic Volatility 随机波动. In Chinese