PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

Media Appearances

The Grand Experiment. The Wire China. Dec 17, 2023.

More People Living Longer with HIV/AIDS in China, Figures Show. The Guardian. Nov 7, 2023

China Fuels Global Surge in MPOX Cases as LGBTQ+ Stigma Hampers Response. The Guardian. Sep 22, 2023

Mpox: China’s Health Authorities Fight Surge in Cases of Unknown Origin. BMJ. Aug 22, 2023

Who Supports Social Credit Systems in China? Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institution China Brief. Sep 15, 2022

China’s ‘Surveillance Creep’: How Big Data COVID Monitoring Could be Used to Control People Post-Pandemic. The Conversation. Aug 30, 2021.

To Survive, China’s Biggest Gay Dating APP Became a Pharmacy. Rest of World. Aug 27, 2021.

Public Writing

How Chinese Citizens See Social Credit? UC San Diego China Data Lab Blog. Aug 16, 2022

Is My Fieldwork Sensitive? States, Power, & Societies. Spring/Summer, 9-10. 

Invited Talks

"The Political Data Work and the Co-Production of Data-Driven Systems." Digital Governance Research Colloquium. Center for Digital Governance, Hertie School. Nov 6, 2024

"Knowing China from Fieldwork." Overseas Young Chinese Forum, UC San Diego. Aug 31, 2024

"Following Data in the Authoritarian State." Joint Meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology and the Society for the Anthropology of Work. Apr 19, 2024

"The Myth of the Chinese Social Credit System." Ethical Tech Working Group, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University. Apr 9, 2024

"Following Data in the Authoritarian State." Digital Ethnography Working Group, Rutgers University. Apr 5, 2024

"Understanding AI via Data." Interdisciplinary Research in Technology & Society Symposium, Tufts University. Mar 25, 2024

"Sense and Sensitivity." Doing China-Related Research in COVID-19, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Mar 23, 2022

"Surveillance Statism." The Digital State: Technology and Government in Pandemic Times, King’s College London. May 14, 2021.