"Another Swimmer," in
Chinese
Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land,
edited by Angilee Shah and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UC
Press, September 2012
"The
Rules of the Game," essay on China's officialdom
novels, Foreign Policy,
July/August 2012
Nomination
for the Best American Travel
Writing,
Best
American Nonrequired Reading and Best American Science and Nature
Writing by StoryQuarterly,
2005
Fiction
Scholarship from Bread
Loaf,
2005
Finalist
in MVP competition for
"new
and
emerging" writers, New Rivers Press, 2004