Fields:
- Modern China
- Modern Southeast Asia
- Overseas Chinese Communities in Southeast Asia
Representative Publications
- Connecting China, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infrastructure and Everyday Life, ed. Joseph Alter, James Cook, and Enrique Dussel-Peters, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.
- From Clayderman to Cui Jian,” in China Tripping: Encountering the Everyday in the People’s Republic, ed. Jeremy Murray, Perry Link, and Paul Pickowicz, 95-115. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
- Visualizing China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750—Present, ed. James Cook, Joshua Goldstein, Matthew Johnson, and Sigrid Schmalzer, New York: Lexington Press, 2014.
- “Rethinking “China”: Overseas Chinese and China’s Modernity,” in Visualizing China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750—present, ed. James Cook, Joshua Goldstein, Matthew Johnson, and Sigrid Schmalzer, 127-143. New York: Lexington Press, 2014.
- “China's New Sorrow: Water-Management Policies, Environmental Degradation, and Salar-Tibetan Minority Relations in Qinghai Province,” Twentieth Century China 38.2 (May 2013): 156-179.
- “A Transnational Revolution: Sun Yatsen, Overseas Chinese, and the Revolutionary Movement in Xiamen, 1900-12,” in Sun Yat-sen, Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution, ed. Lee Lai To and Lee Hock Guan, 127-162. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.
- “Colonial Refractions: Xiamen as a Transnational Landscape,” in Reassessing Asia in the Light of Urban and Architectural History, ed. Executive Committee of the International Conference on East Asian Architectural Culture, 177-187. Kyoto: Kyoto University, 2006