The protests in China, explained‘White paper’ protests have sprung up across China this weekend after a deadly apartment fire in the Uyghur province of Xinjiang.By Tze Ming Mok | 29th November, 2022Guest writer
The Thursday Poem: Bad exampleA poem for NZ Chinese Language Week 2022 and Chris Tse.By Tze Ming Mok | 29th September, 2022Guest writer
When are you White and when are you Black?Tze Ming Mok examines the history of language around whiteness and blackness as it pertains to Asian peoples in Aotearoa and beyond.By Tze Ming Mok | 25th September, 2022Guest writer
‘They shit what you feed them’: Tze Ming Mok on data and its limitsThe new and spectacular atlas, We Are Here, is page after page of haunting, hella beautiful visual data, each chapter introduced with an essay. This one, Lost in the Forest, introduces the section on people. By Tze Ming Mok | 23rd October, 2019Guest writer
Violent racist guilty of violent racist attack. The law says: nah, no hate crimeA nightmarish high-speed pursuit of a NZ Chinese family concluded with a judge rejecting the request for hate crime sentencing.By Tze Ming Mok | 23rd July, 2019Guest writer
After a long silence: A letter to a lost friend in XinjiangBy Tze Ming Mok | 3rd June, 2019Guest writer
Crap models and laughable claims: Immigration NZ’s spreadsheet fiascoAfter the minister suspended its profiling pilot, Immigration NZ has released a spreadsheet and a briefing note. Tze Ming Mok is deeply, deeply unimpressed.By Tze Ming Mok | 10th April, 2018Guest writer
Immigration NZ is trying a bit of racial profiling and it seems very pleased with itselfRacial profiling by Immigration NZ is a tale as old as time, but if the ‘harm team’ has its way they'll be workshopping it into our very own dystopian scifi blockbuster, writes Tze Ming Mok.By Tze Ming Mok | 5th April, 2018Guest writer
Roskill Asians talk about their lives, or: Tze Ming Mok interviews her Mum and DadA conversation on the byelection result, politics and Asian communities, and whether Michael Wood’s big win points to a Labour resurgence, with two longtime Mt Roskill residents who happen also to be Tze Ming Mok’s parentsBy Tze Ming Mok | 5th December, 2016Guest writer
OpinionThe reality of Theresa May’s new vision? Make Britain Shit AgainRegisters of foreign workers and attacks on human rights lawyers show the poison of Trump seeping into the Conservative government’s new, cynical strategy, laments London-based New Zealander Tze Ming MokBy Tze Ming Mok | 7th October, 2016Guest writer