Really nice piece from Los Angeles Times Stephanie Yang featuring many of the people who have jumpstarted Taiwan’s MeToo movement latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Powerful essay in The New York Times today by leading #Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by me. "The defense of Uyghurs’ human rights is the defense of human rights everywhere. If repression can be contagious, so can justice." — Tahir H. Izgil nytimes.com/2023/07/28/opi…

Timely report by ⁦Tiffany May⁩ and great quote from the business community that could be affected had the injunction been given. My take is that, we have to wait and see how the governments of Hong Kong and PRC will respond. nytimes.com/2023/07/28/bus…

From today's The New York Times. Thanks again to Tiffany May for this outstanding profile of leading #Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil. It's been a privilege translating Tahir H. Izgil's poetry & memoir, and it's so good to see how his work is raising awareness of the crisis in the Uyghur homeland.

I've written about the problem of exit bans, including those of the sort that LSW was subjected to -- see my prior piece in Foreign Policy (with Zhao Sile) here: foreignpolicy.com/2019/07/23/chi…

I wrote about Chinese diaspora churches and the thin line between longform journalist and native informant. It's an essay about the piece I most regret writing. offassignment.com/wids/april-zhu

While sheltering in the basement amid Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, The New York Times freelance journalist Ameera Harouda drew birds and butterflies on the hands of her 3-year-old son Taim to try to keep him calm. "Draw food for them too so the birds can eat," Taim told his mom. #Gaza

For Tasneem Ismael Ahel, sporadic access to WhatsApp is one of the few outlets for sharing her firsthand account of Israel's war in Gaza: raw reflections on death, despair and shattered dreams sent via audio messages from a territory under siege. nytimes.com/2023/10/25/wor…

Thousands of aid workers in Gaza are sticking with their jobs — with little sleep and limited resources — all while trying to stay alive. As of Friday, 53 UN staff members were killed by Israeli airstrikes, according to UNRWA. nyti.ms/3s6k4YL

As news bureaus lose contact with their crews & reporters in #Gaza—those independently bearing witness to provide info about developments and the human toll of this war—the world is losing a window into the reality of all sides engaged in this conflict. cpj.org/2023/10/cpj-st…

Doctors in Gaza say they are performing surgeries without anesthesia after Israeli bombings and blockades led to shortages of medicine, water and fuel. “We choose who gets ventilation by deciding who has the best chance of survival,” one doctor said. nyti.ms/3Spc2oz

Incredible testimony on CNN Monday from Emily Callahan, an American nurse who was in Gaza w/ Doctors Without Borders but evacuated. She reports almost starving to death, 4 toilets shared by 50,000 & the extraordinary bravery of her local colleagues there.

For @POLITICO Nightly, I wrote about what it's like being a senior at Columbia University while simultaneously reporting on a campus I hardly recognize. politico.com/newsletters/po…

What an indescribable feeling it is to see Columbia Daily Spectator on the latest cover of New York Magazine. Our very own student journalists reported, wrote, photographed, and illustrated a three-story package that gives an intimate portrait into Columbia University: a campus in crisis.

This June 4 marks #Tiananmen35. For @TheNation, I write about grieving and preserving memory from an ocean away, amid violent crackdowns of Students 4 Gaza encampments, and why reclaiming the legacy of Tiananmen demands releasing it from Cold War politics: thenation.com/article/world/…

Today I was fired from the Wall Street Journal. This is my statement:

Hong Kong Journalists Association chair Selina Cheng said she was fired from the Wall Street Journal over press freedom advocacy. Cheng was told by her WSJ supervisor that her role leading the press union was "incompatible" with her job. AFP News Agency story: bit.ly/3Y7xd17

“The fear and unease the press in Hong Kong have been facing for years now has equally affected The Journal’s management, even though they’re far away on different continents,” Selina Cheng nytimes.com/2024/07/17/wor…

Hong Kong-born Elim Chan is among the up-and-coming orchestra conductors shaking up the classical music world. "I am proud of the fact that there is actually this thing called a 'Hongkonger', a very cool hybrid quality," she told AFP News Agency. Interview: bit.ly/3ZfMJIy🧵

In the past three decades, David Webb has almost single-handedly taken on the rich and powerful in Hong Kong, tirelessly campaigning for greater transparency from public companies. Read our profile of the activist investor here (gift link): nytimes.com/2025/06/26/wor…