Essays & Articles
- “A tour of the silent megacity” (The Boston Globe, May 2022)
- “How We Are Rohan” (The Inkwell, December 2021)
- “Locked In, Locked Out: The Foreign Students Stuck in Limbo” (Sixth Tone, June 2020)
- “Enter Ghost: China’s Growing Obsession With Immersive Plays” (Sixth Tone, December 2019)
- “My Kafkaesque Experience as an International Student in China” (Sixth Tone, July 2019)
- “Shanghai’s Skaters Vie for Space Atop Stricter Streets” (Sixth Tone, May 2018)
- “The Play That Never Sleeps: ‘Macbeth’ in China” (Sixth Tone, December 2018)
- “Why China Shouldn’t Exorcise Its Ghost Stories” (Sixth Tone, October 2018)
Creative Nonfiction
- “Boo Who?” (Speculative Nonfiction, December 2020)
- “A Prayer for Abe Lincoln” (MacQueen’s Quinterly, October 2020)
- “In Search of White Snake” (Concrete, 2018)
- Interview and reading of “In Search of White Snake” (“Bookish Expats” podcast, November 2018)
Translations
- “Calling Back From Wuhan” documentary (2021)
- Winner of World Press Photo’s 2021 Digital Storytelling Contest
- Documentary series on migrant workers in Guangzhou (2020)
- “Boxing Shadows” documentary (2018)
- “Meeting Stonecutters at a Station” (The Shanghai Literary Review, July 2017)
Miscellaneous
- “Dinner Date” (Narrative)
- Haunted/闹鬼(Bilingual graphic novel, 2019)
- “Mystery Lakes of the Badain Jaran Desert,” “Danxia Landforms” “Jiayuguan Fortress,” “Tianducheng” (Atlas Obscura)
- “Electric Brain (电脑)” (Alluvium, June 2019)
- “The Return” (Minnesota’s Best Emerging Poets, 2018)
- “Howling at the Moon: 30 Days of Poetry” (2017, contributing writer)
- “Through the Dragon Gate: Hannah’s China Travels 2012-2017” (2017)
- “Through the Dragon Gate” blog
- “Funny at times and poignant at others. You know this one’s good because it doesn’t have pictures and I was hanging on every word.” (The Penniless Traveler, 2012)