Zoe Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a scholar and ‘artivist’ of technology, labour, media, and social movements in global contexts. Their art practice leverages games and play to reimagine forms of commoning and to queer care infrastructures. Their current book project, titled ‘Strategic Play’, examines videogame service work in China and the Sinophone world.
‘Many of us who came and stayed here for more than two years are still stuck in Chinese-speaking communities.’ A Chinese asylum-seeker shared this with us during a conversation in late 2024. The sentiment is striking not because it is unusual, but because it is so widely echoed by Chinese immigrants who have sought asylum […]
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