About
My research focuses on modern Chinese, Taiwanese, and Sinophone literatures, visual culture, urban studies, and environmental studies. My current research analyzes relational ontologies within Sinophone eco-literature. The project was motivated by conclusions in my book, Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China (Duke University Press, 2010), which analyzes urban planning, fiction, cinema, art, and cultural studies in the People’s Republic of China at the turn of the 21st century. I have also translated essays and fiction by Chinese and Taiwanese intellectuals.
I was a National Humanities Center Fellow in 2017-18 in support of my current book project, Bordering Chinese Eco-Literatures (1980-2020).
I teach courses on Chinese Science Fiction, Chinese Environmental Literature, Narrative Ethics in Modern China, Writing Women in Modern China, City in Modern Chinese Literature and Cinema, Indigenous Ecologies in Sinophone Literatures. Education
PhD Chinese Literature, Columbia University
BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan Publications
Books
Bordering Chinese Eco-Literatures (1980-2020) (in progress)
Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China (Duke UP, 2010)
Refereed articles and chapters (selected)
“Anti-Epics of the Anthropocene in China.” In The Epic World. Ed. Pamela Lothspeich. Routledge. Forthcoming, 2021.
“Ecology as Method.” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 16.2 (October 2019): 320-345.
“Posthuman Policies for Creative, Smart, Eco-Cities? Case Studies from China.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 51.1 (2019): 206-225.
“Chinese Eco-Cities and Urbanization Planning: Case Studies of Tongzhou, Lingang, and Dujiangyan.” In Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China. Eds. Carlos Rojas and Ralph Litzinger. Duke UP, 2016. 36-61.
“Contemporary Urban Fiction: Rewriting the City.” With Jie Lu. In The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature. Ed Kirk Denton. Columbia UP, 2016. 345-354.
“Anthropocosmic Resonance in Post-Mao Chinese Environmental Literature.” In Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 《文艺理论研究》33.4 (2013): 34-44.
“Coming of Age in RMB City.” In Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture. Eds. Jeroen de Kloet and Lena Scheen. University of Amsterdam Press, 2013. 41-57. Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“Tibetan and Mongolian Anti-Epics of the Anthropocene.” Duke University. Chinese SF and Ecocriticism. Nov 30, 2020.
“Sinophone Anti-Epics of the Anthropocene.” Penn State Comp Lit Luncheon Series. Feb 15, 2021.
“Cosmologies in Tibetan Eco-Literature.” Position-Taking in Chinese Ethnic Spheres: Minority Aesthetics, Agency, and Politics. Association of Asian Studies. Seattle. Mar 25-28, 2021.
Memberships
MLA, Association of Asian Studies, Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.
