• B.A., History and Journalism, Wuhan University, China
• M.A., History, Xiamen University, China
• M.A. History, Carnegie Mellon University
• Ph.D., History, Carnegie Mellon University

• Associate Professor, ÿÈÕ´ó¹Ï (2021-present)
• Assistant Professor, ÿÈÕ´ó¹Ï (2016-2021)
• Instructor, Carnegie Mellon University (2015-2016)

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.

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Journal articles

“From social drama to political performance: China’s multi-front combat with the Covid-19 epidemic,” Critical Asian Studies (June 2020), 1-21. DOI: 

“Courting Actresses and Exploring Love in Late Qing and Early Republican China,” Frontier History of China, 2020, 15(1): 1-33. 

“Writing on Actresses and the Modern Transformation of Opera Fandom in 1910s Beijing,” Modern China, 45:4 (September 2018), 433-465. 

“Transgressive Female Roles and the Embodiment of Actresses in 1910s Beijing” Twentieth Century China 41:1 (January 2016), 29-51. 

“Qingdai Hankou Shangren Huiguan de Jiangou jiqi Leixing (Constructing Merchant Guilds in Hankow in the Qing Dynasty),” (in Chinese) The Journal of Chinese Social and Economic History, 3:102 (September 2007).

Book Reviews

Review of Hsiao-t’i 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’s 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).