Writings
"As viral contact zones, online discussions of Hegang enabled the intersubjective sociability of negative feelings that might otherwise remain unspoken."
"In orchestrating the returning of overseas Chinese, the state’s narrative makes the social body of each returnee a meaningful position embedded in the bigger narrative of the country’s battle with COVID-19."
Selected conference & workshop papers
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Teleological Reversal of Developmentalism: Imagining Home of Future in China’s Rustbelt
Annual conference paper presentation, Association for Asian Studies, March 2026
Home at the end of the world: Phantasmatic Futures via Virtual Housing at China’s Rust Belt
Annual Meeting Executive Panel, American Anthropological Association, November 2025
Beyond Bitterness: Strategies of Reclaiming the Present in Contemporary China
Annual Conference panel co-chair, British Association for China Studies, September 2025
Politics of Detachment: Urban-Urban Migration into China’s Rustbelt
“Chinese Youth in a Divided World” workshop, Lund University, August 2025
Specters of Obligation: Imagining and Inhabiting Real Estate in China’s Rust Belt
“Instrument of Obligation” Conference, Anthropology at Princeton University, April 2025
Negotiating Time through Real Estate at China’s Rust Belt
Biennial Conference, European Association for Social Anthropologists, July 2024
“Empty Apartments in Hegang (鹤岗的空房子),”
Invited public seminar at Ling Art Space, Shenzhen, March 2024
From Surplus to Utopia
Precarity in Urban China workshop, University College London, June 2024
Whose Utopia: Capitalism, Temporal Logics, and Phantasmatic Discourse on Two Empty Cities in China
Emptiness: Ways of Seeing Conference, University of Oxford, September 2021
Femininity and the Robotic Medium
Annual Conference, Royal Anthropological Institute, June 2022