Mason L. Wong is a writer based in New York City. He is currently pursuing a PhD in comparative literature at New York University, where his research focuses on the intellectual history and literature of modern China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Also trained in international relations, he writes on culture, human rights, technology, and East Asian politics.
Mason L. Wong
Advertisement
Writing on Public Books
Lineages of the Engineering State: On China, the United States, and the Future
“Perhaps, when we claim that China has exhausted the conceptual resources of the West, what we really mean is that China has exhausted the conceptual resources of American journalists and defense intellectuals in the Washington, DC area.”
See Me like a State
As stories about flashy new technologies eclipse more measured coverage, it becomes easy for foreign audiences, particularly those in America, to lose track of the actual harms inflicted by China’s surveillance state.
