Public Writing

In English

• "Thinking with Hannah Arendt in Contemporary China Today," February 9, 2022, Democracy Seminar.

• "The Western Intellectual Behind China’s Distrust of the Crowd," February 19, 2020, Palladium Magazine.

In Chinese

• "Social Consensus and Plural Difference: How Should We Understand Justice After Rawls?" [《社会共识与多元差异：罗尔斯之后,我们应如何理解正义?》],  March 18, 2024, Beijing News Book Review Journal 新京报书评周刊.

• "Protecting Our Lives with Ideas: Judith Shklar and the Long Twentieth Century" [《用观念保卫我们的生活：朱迪斯·施克莱与漫长的二十世纪》], January 3, 2023, Beijing News Book Review Journal 新京报书评周刊.

• "Merely A Show? Labor Politics behind the NBA's Three-Day Strike" [《一场作秀？NBA三日罢赛背后的劳工政治》], August 29, 2020, The Paper 澎湃.

• "The Question of Positionality for the Left in Movements" [《左翼在运动中的姿态问题》], June 25, 2020, Squatting 蹲点 (accessed via Matters.news)

• "The Crowd and Elitist Mass Psychology in China" [《〈乌合之众〉与中国的精英主义群体心理学》], February 14, 2020, Oriental History Review 东方历史评论.

• "Why Francis Fukuyama Is Not the Antidote to the Crisis of Cold-War Liberalism" [《冷战自由主义危机，为何福山不是解方？》], September 11, 2019, Initium Media 澎湃.

• "On the Uses and Disadvantages of Hypocrisy for Politics" [《虚伪在政治中的用途与危害》], February 1, 2019, Polis 城与邦.

• "Between History and Philosophy: Judith Shklar's Historical Method" [《在历史与哲学之间：朱迪丝・施克莱的历史方法论》], August 19, 2018, The Paper 澎湃.

• "Pearl Diving: Hannah Arendt's Historical Method" [《“采集历史的珍珠”：汉娜·阿伦特的历史方法论》], June 10, 2018, The Paper 澎湃.

• "Putting Oneself in Others' Shoes: The Impacts and Limits of Empathy in Political Mobilization" [《“设身处地”：同理心在政治中的作用和局限》], August 31, 2017, Polis 城与邦.

• "A Theory of Nation Close to 'National Nihilism'" [《近似民族虚无主义的民族理论》], August 3, 2017, Polis 城与邦.

• "Civil Disobedience: John Rawls and His Discontents" [《公民抗命：罗尔斯和他的反对者》], May 20, 2017, Polis 城与邦.

• "The Air in Kunming: Truth, Commonsense, and Public Political Discussion" [《昆明的空气：真相、常识和公共政治讨论》], May 25, 2017, CNPolitics 政见.

• [With Yueran Zhang] "Why Should Liberals Re-read Antonio Gramsci Who Passed Away Eighty Years Ago" [《逝世八十年的葛兰西，为何值得自由主义者重读》], April 27, 2017, Initium Media 端传媒.

• "The Afterlife of The Communist Manifesto" [《〈共产党宣言〉的来生》], February 16, 2017, Polis 城与邦.

• "The Educational System as the Battleground of Ideologies" [《教育系统：意识形态的战场》], December 4, 2016, CNPolitics 政见.

• "Political Science in America: War, Ideology, Funding, and Disciplinary History" [《政治学在美国：战争、意识形态、资金与学科发展史》], November 25, 2016, Polis 城与邦.

• "Are Liberalism and Patriotism Really Compatible?" [《自由主义和爱国主义真的相容吗？》], September 25, 2016, CNPolitics 政见.

• "Bernard Yack in the Spectrum of Nationality" [《伯纳德·雅克：在国族主义光谱之中》], August 9, 2016, Polis 城与邦.

• "Allen Wood on Whether Capitalism Is Just" [《艾伦·伍德：资本主义是正义的吗？》], July 2016, Polis 城与邦.

• "‘True Democracy:' The Political Theory of 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right'' [《“真正的民主”：《黑格尔法哲学批判》的政治理论], May 31, 2016, Polis 城与邦.

• "Nationality: The Battery of Political Power" [《国族性：政治权力的电池》], March 29, 2016, Polis 城与邦.

• "The Division of Labor in Political Philosophy" [《政治哲学的学科分工》], March 3, 2016, Polis 城与邦.

All Chinese essays in this page can be found here.