Writings

Hong Kong Protests: Brand ‘Witch Hunt’ Takes over Chinese Internet (BBC)

The Problem of UnionPay in Amsterdam / the Netherlands

China’s “Orwellian” Version of Slack is Tracking Workers As They Arrive At and Leave the Office (Quartz)

A Beautiful Essay Critiquing the “Fake Lives” of Beijingers is Blocked After Lighting Up Chinese Social Media (Quartz)

Forgotten Allies – Transnational Memories of the Second Sino-Japanese War (CSS Academic Press)

My Love of China Began With a Thank You Note (China Daily)

Beijing XII: Altijd Wakker in Beijing (China 2025)

China’s Ghost Cities Aren’t Exactly Dead (VICE)

Love and Online Dating in China: Serious Business (Frauensolidaritaet)

China Online: Netspeak and Wordplay Used by Over 700 Million Chinese Internet Users (Babel)

From Woman Warrior to Good Wife – Confucian Influences on the Portrayal of Women in China’s Television Drama (Routledge)

Beijing XI: Taobao Girls

Japan State of Mind

Review: Reconstructing Postwar Sino-Japanese Relations

Shanghai Baby: Beyond China- A Chinese Novel Banished to the West

Mao’s Honger Naar Macht (Skript Historisch Tijdschrift)

The ‘Magic’ of Memory: Chinese and Japanese Re-Remembrances of the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

Gendered Nationalism and May Fourth: China’s ‘New Woman’

Beyond the Whale – Japan, The West & The Whaling Issue

From Gal to Lady – Gender, Language and Japan’s Kogals