Department of History
College of Humanities & Social Sciences
I specialize in the social and cultural history of modern China, with particular emphasis on the subfields of urban history, theater performance, and gender studies.
Journal articles
鈥淔rom social drama to political performance: China鈥檚 multi-front combat with the Covid-19 epidemic,鈥 Critical Asian Studies (June 2020), 1-21. DOI:
鈥淐ourting Actresses and Exploring Love in Late Qing and Early Republican China,鈥 Frontier History of China, 2020, 15(1): 1-33.
鈥淲riting on Actresses and the Modern Transformation of Opera Fandom in 1910s Beijing,鈥 Modern China, 45:4 (September 2018), 433-465.
鈥淭ransgressive Female Roles and the Embodiment of Actresses in 1910s Beijing鈥 Twentieth Century China 41:1 (January 2016), 29-51.
鈥淨ingdai Hankou Shangren Huiguan de Jiangou jiqi Leixing (Constructing Merchant Guilds in Hankow in the Qing Dynasty),鈥 (in Chinese) The Journal of Chinese Social and Economic History, 3:102 (September 2007).
Book Reviews
Review of Hsiao-t鈥檌 Li, Opera, Society, and Politics in Modern China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019). Journal of Asian Studies, 78:4 (2019).
Translations
Translator (with others) from English to Chinese, Ritual, Standardization, and Chinese Culture: Revisiting James Waston鈥檚 Theory. Published as Yishi, Biaozhunhua yu Zhongguo Wenhua (Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2019)
Translator (with others) from English to Chinese, Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods by Cynthia J. Brokaw (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007). Published as Wenhua Maoyi: Qingdai zhi Minguo Shiqi Sibao de Shuji Maoyi (Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2015).