SELECTED PUBLIC WRITING (since 2019)
Zhao, Zoe and Lu, Haoju. 2026 (Mar 16). “Beyond Zouxian: The Making of Chinese Asylum-Seeking Workers in the US Platform Economy.” Made in China Journal.
Zhao, Zoe and Shu, Olia. 2024 (Summer). “Gender and the Chinese Working Class.” New Politics Vol. XX No. 1, Whole Number 77.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2024 (Jun 7). “Why Are There Male Game Companions? Gender Division of Labor in the Platform Gaming Service Industry.” Madame Muse. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2023 (Jul 15). “Art of Endurance: Insights from Atlanta’s Stop Cop City.” The Initium. In Chinese.
Yin, Aiwen and Zhao, Mengyang. 2023 (Jun 23). “Playing ‘Liquid Dependencies: What Does a Decentralised Caring Society Look Like’ (2021-Present).” Arts of the Working Class. #26 Grassroots.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (Dec 22). “Divide or Unite? American Leftist Organizations at a Crossroads.” The Initium. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (Jun 30). “We Have Never Been Progressive? Street War of the American Anti-abortion Movement.” The Paper. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (May 5). “The Undercurrents and Rebellion of the American Right after Capitol Hill.” The Paper. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (Feb 20). “No Games, No Gig: Gig Game Workers in China.” The Initium. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (Jan 5). “Eliminating Boundaries with Care: A Game’s Social Practice.” Stanford Social Innovation Review (Chinese Edition).
Zhao, Mengyang. 2021 (Jul 28). “Black Lives Matter a Year Later: A Fragile Coalition and Rightwing Backlash.” The Paper. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2021 (May 16). “Devaluation, Invisibility and Stalled Struggles: Care Labor in the Chasms of Future Work.” The Paper. In Chinese.
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.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2021 (Jan 14). “Can Google’s Minority Union Become a Template for Tech Worker Activism in the Future?” The Initium. In Chinese.
Zhao, Zoe. 2020 (Nov 14). “Facing Down the Hong Kong Protests’ Right-wing Turn and a New Afterword.” Lausan.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (Sep 16). “Play as Work: Are Chinese Game Workers Earning Easy Money or Struggling Hopelessly?” Masses. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (Jun 7). “American Social Movements and the Long History of Black Organizing.” The Paper. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (Jun 1). “Is the American Social Movement Becoming Hong Kong-ized?.” The Initium. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (May 21). “Social Movements in the Pandemic Era: Contraction, Inversion, and Renewal” The Paper. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (Mar 27). “The American Workplace During the Pandemic.” The Paper. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (Mar 10). “Automation, Ideology, and the Rise of Ghost Work.” All History. In Chinese
Zhao, Mengyang. 2019 (Dec 20). “From Private Armed Suppression to Union Avoidance Consulting: A History of the Union Busting Industry in America.” The Paper. In Chinese.
Zhao, Zoe. 2019 (Oct 9). “Game of Our Times.” Matters. In Chinese. English Translation by Lausan
Zhao, Mengyang. 2019 (Aug 29). “A Hundred Years of Division: How Race and Labor Politics Have Torn Apart American Unions.” CNPolitics.org. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2019 (Aug 17). “From ‘Armed Tongues’ to ‘Black Ice Cream’: Latinx Music and American Politics.” Daily Vinyl. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2019 (Jun 20). “The Evolution of Tear Gas: Who Profits Behind the Global Militarization of Police Power?” The Initium. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2019 (May 26). “The Besieged June Fourth Discussion Needs to Be Reconnected to the Spectrum of the Post–Cold War Era.” The Initium. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2019 (Mar 18). “The New Zealand Attack: The Deceptive Face of White Right-Wing Extremism.” The Paper. In Chinese.
Zhao, Mengyang. 2019 (Jan 23). “White Women and the Long History of American White Supremacy.” The Paper. In Chinese.
I have been a freelance writer in Chinese since 2009, scattered across various media platforms. Many of those platforms have since ended amid socio-political changes, taking my articles with them. If you are lucky, you might accidentally discover backups in some corner of the Internet under my main pen name "夕岸." I have used other names too over the past two decades, but even I can no longer remember them all.