Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 2017, Dapiran ya wallafa littafinsa na farko "City of Protest: A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong" tare da Penguin Books, wanda ya shafi tarihin zanga-zangar zanga-zangar a Hong Kong tun daga shekarun 1960. A cikin littafin, Dapiran ya mai da hankali musamman kan zanga-zangar Hong Kong ta 2014
Ka yi haƙuri. A cewar Dapiran, ganin wadannan zanga-zangar ya sa shi "ya gane ainihin na a matsayin Hongkonger". Tun lokacin da aka buga littafin farko na Dapiran, ya zama ɗaya daga cikin manyan masu sharhi na Yammacin Turai game da zanga-zangar zanga-zangar Hong Kong, musamman a lokacin Zanga-zangar Hong Kong ta 2019-2020. An yaba masa a cikin "South China Morning Post" a matsayin "sanannen mai lura da siyasa na gari" kuma ana yawan ambatonsa a matsayin ƙwararren masani kan Hong Kong ta hanyar kafofin watsa labarai kamar "Quartz", "Financial Times" ko "Time". Rubuta a cikin wallafe-wallafe kamar "The Guardian", "The Atlantic", "New Statesman, CNN" da "Foreign Policy" da kuma bayyana a shirye-shirye kamar BBC, Bloomberg TV, Reuters, RTHK da ABC, Dapiran ya soki gwamnatin Hong Kong da gwamnatin tsakiya ta China a Beijing sosai, yana mai cewa, alal misali, cewa "gwamnatin Hong Kong ba ta yin aiki a cikin mafi kyawun bukatun mutanenta", cewa "Beijing ta yi amfani da jan hankali na duniya [saboda barkewar Covid-19] don fara ɗaukar fansa don ƙalubalen Hong Kong ga mulkin China" a cikin 2019, kuma cewa gwamnatin China tana amfani da doka don yin aiki a kan 'yan adawa a Hong Kong. A watan Yulin 2020, ya yi iƙirarin cewa gwamnatin China tana aiki kamar "ikon mulkin mallaka" a Hong Kong kuma cewa "matakan Amurka, tare da takunkumin da Beijing ta yi wa Hong Kong, suna saurin juya birnin daga buɗewa, cibiyar hada-hadar kuɗi ta duniya mai zaman kanta zuwa filin da ake takaddama a gaba da saurin rikice-rikicen siyasa". Tun daga 2020, ya kuma rubuta shafi na yau da kullun don Hong Kong Outlet Citizen News.