A Racist Cause-and-Effect Story
the drift
Issue 11, November 8, 2023
“Who digs the mines?” Review of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai
London Review of Books
Vol. 44, No. 14, July 21, 2022
Podcast interview
The LRB Podcast with Thomas Jones
“Stephen Curry and the Spirit of History”
n+1 magazine
June 20, 2022
“Lab-Leak Theory and the ‘Asiatic’ Form”
n+1 magazine
Spring 2022
Podcast interview
The Sinica podcast with Kaiser Kuo (the SupChina network)
Transcript here
July 7, 2022Also read aloud for the China Stories podcast (SupChina)
Linked at Lausan
“The Market’s Specter: China between Communism and Capitalism”: A review of Jason Kelly’s Market Maoists and Isabella Weber’s How China escaped Shock Therapy
The Nation
February 21, 2022
“Unpacking The 100-Year History Of The Chinese Communist Party”
All Things Considered, National Public Radio
July 5, 2021
“Roundtable on China: a dialogue between Lausan and Critical China Scholars”
Spectre
March 10, 2021
“Inadvertent General Strike” with Elias Rodriques
n+1 magazine
August 29, 2020
“About those ‘letters to my Asian parents about anti-black racism’”
Time to Say Goodbye newsletter
June 17, 2020
“Blaming China for coronavirus isn’t just dangerous. It misses the point.”
The Guardian
April 10, 2020
“‘Chinese Virus,’ World Market”
n+1 magazine
March 20, 2020
Podcast interview
This is Hell!
April 1, 2020Spanish translation
“‘Virus chino’, mercado global”
Nexos: Cultura y la vida cotidiana
trans. Nicolás Medina Mora Pérez
April 8, 2020Korean translation
“‘중국 바이러스’, 그리고 세계시장”
in 팬데믹 이후 중국의 길을 묻다 :대안적 문명과 거버넌스
Questioning China’s Path After the Pandemic
trans. 백영서 Paek Yŏng-sŏ
Seoul: Ch’aekkwahamkke, 2021Collected in
There is No Outside: Covid-19 Dispatches (Verso)
ed. Jessie Kindig, Mark Krotov, and Marco RothLinked at Lausan
“Does Hong Kong Even Need the NBA?: A protest movement becomes a prop in the US culture war”
Mother Jones
October 10, 2019
Linked at Lausan
“How Asia got Crazy Rich: Towards a materialist history of Crazy Rich Asians”
n+1 magazine
September 14, 2018
From April 2020 until June 2022, I was part of a podcast called Time to Say Goodbye with journalists Jay Caspian Kang and E. Tammy Kim. We initially focused on the then-novel pandemic but also pivoted to broader discussions about Asia, Asian America, left politics, and whatever books or headlines were on our minds. A few enduring episodes:
The aftermath of the Atlanta attacks (Mar. 23, 2021)
The South and race-class debates with Adolph Reed Jr. (Apr. 5, 2022)
‘Racial disparity’ and race vs. class with Merlin Chowkwanyun (Aug. 20, 2020)
On Chan is Missing with Hua Hsu (Jan. 19, 2021)
On Squid Game (Oct. 5, 2021)
On Everything Everywhere All at Once (May 24, 2022)
On Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (June 14, 2022)
Comfort Women denialism with Chelsea Schieder (June 11, 2021)
Alien Capital with Iyko Day (June 18, 2021)
Xinjiang and the Uyghur people with Darren Byler (July 17, 2020)
Taiwan and the Taiwan diaspora with Brian Hioe and Wen Liu from New Bloom (Nov. 16, 2021)