BOOKS
· Longing for Landscape: Displacement, Locality, and Cultural Memory in the Song Dynasty Lyrics. Harvard University Asia Center, Forthcoming 2026.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
WORKS IN PROGRESS
· Co-translator with Xiaolin Duan and Thomas Mazanec, One-Hundred Poems on West Lake 西湖百詠 by Dong Sigao 董嗣杲 (fl.1260-1276) (Accepted for publication by the Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature at Oxford University Press)
· Book manuscript: Investigating Urban Traces: The Geo-poetics of Urban Identity in Southern Song China 尋覓城市的遺跡: 南宋城市形象的地理與抒情書寫
FORAYS INTO ECOCRITICISM
FORAYS INTO ECOCRITICISM
Co-editor with Evan Nicholl-Johnson (University of Alberta) of a special issue of the journal Postmedieval that features 10 articles and 2 response essays on the topic of ecocritical approaches to East Asian premodern literatures, entitled, “Imagining the Palaeoanthropocene in East Asia,” Issue 14.4 (December 2023)
Co-author with Evan Nicoll-Johnson (University of Alberta), “Greening the global medieval: Exploring the cultural worlds of the Palaeoanthropocene in East Asia” introduction to a special issue of Postmedieval, Issue 14.4 (December 2023). 16 pages.
Co-author with Evan Nicoll-Johnson (University of Alberta), “Greening the global medieval: Exploring the cultural worlds of the Palaeoanthropocene in East Asia” introduction to a special issue of Postmedieval, Issue 14.4 (December 2023). 16 pages.
“Encountering the environmental uncanny in Su Shi’s Rhapsodies on the Red Cliff: An ecocritical parable in text and image” Postmedieval, Issue 14.4 (December 2023). 39 pages.
“Chapter 1: Between the Placid Mirror and Roiling Waves: The Materiality of Water and the Literary Imagination of Hangzhou in Poetry of the Tang-Song Era” in Xiaolin Duan and Antonio José Mezcua López, ed. Spring Dawn and Su Causeway: History and Landscape Culture of Hangzhou’s West Lake. (Brill Press, 2026): 27-55.
GEO-POETICS: INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN LOCAL GAZETEERS AND POETRY COLLECTIONS IN SONG CHINA
Book chapters for Investigating Urban Traces: The Geo-poetics of Regional Urban Identity in Southern Song China
“The City in a Garden: The Emergence of the Geo-Poetic Collection in Dong Sigao’s (active 1260-1276) One Hundred Poems on West Lake” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 49 (2020): 235-290.
“A City of Substance: Regional Custom and the Political Landscape of Shaoxing in a Southern Song Rhapsody” in Joseph C.S. Lam, Shuen-fu Lin, and Martin Powers, ed. Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou in the Southern Song (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2017): 235-254.
“Two Halls of Hangzhou: Local Gazetteers and the Grading of Geography in a Song Dynasty City” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China (April 2014): 225-252.
DISPLACEMENT AND MEMORY IN SONG DYNASTY LYRICS
“Southern Osmanthus and Northern Pear: The Garden of Xiang Ziyin (1085-1152) as a Site of Memory in the Writings of Southern Song Literati” Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 4.1 (April 2017): 19-55.
“From the Banquet to the Border: The Transformation of Su Shi’s Song Lyrics into a Poetry of National Loss in the Restoration Era” CLEAR 34 (December 2012): 57-103.
CULTURAL HISTORY OF CHINESE LITERATURE
“Chapter 5: Aesthetics” in Carlos Rojas and Jack W. Chen, ed. A Cultural History of Chinese Literatures: Volume 3, Age of Consolidation (900-1400). London: Bloomsbury Publishing (forthcoming Spring 2026). 27 pages.
Translations and Co-authored Articles:
An annotated translation of “Two Song Dynasty Scholar-officials’ Depictions of Muslim Merchants in Guangzhou” to be included in Ari Levine, Ellen Cong Zhang, and Ya Zuo, ed. Song Dynasty Biji: An Anthology (forthcoming in Spring 2026 with the University of Washington Press): 12 pages.
Co-authored with Professor Liu Xiaojun 劉曉軍 (East China Normal University), “A Literary Anatomy of the Binary Concept of Emptiness-Substance” in Zong-qi Cai, ed. Special Issue of the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture on “Key Terms of Chinese Literary Theory” 12.1 (April 2025): 60-90.
An annotated translation of “An Offering Text for Ouyang Wenzhong” by Su Shi (1037-1101) in Victor H. Mair and Zhenjun Zhang, ed. Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament (Bloomsbury Press, 2024): 195-198.
Chinese to English translation of the chapter on “Memorials and Letters” by Professor Liu Yucai’s 劉玉才 (Beijing University) in Zong-qi Cai, ed. How to Read Chinese Prose (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022): 148-180.
Chinese to English translation of the song lyric “The Charms of Niannu” by Su Shi (1037-1101) in Michael Fuller, ed. An Introduction to Chinese Poetry, From the Canon of Poetry to the Lyrics of the Song Dynasty. (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017): 398-399.
Co-authored with Kathleen Tomlonovic, “Su Shi (1037-1011)” in Tim Wright, ed. Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, April 27, 2017. www.oxfordbibliographies.com.
Co-authored with Zhao Minli 趙敏俐, “A Discussion of the Principles for the Combination of ‘Feet’ in the Pentasyllabic Shi Genre” 論五言詩體的音步組合原理, Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture. Issue 2.2 (Nov. 2015): 286-323.
Review Articles and Encyclopedia Entries:
Review Article: Elegies for Empire, A Poetics of Memory in the Late Work of Du Fu (Cambridge: Harvard University Asian Center, 2024.) Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 12.1 (forthcoming 2026). 21 pages.
Review Article: Alister D. Inglis, The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023.) Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, 55 (forthcoming 2026). 20 pages.
Review Article: Xiaoshan Yang, Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture. (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021.) Han xue yan jiu 漢學研究, 41.1 (2023). 11 pages.
Review Article: Lucas Klein, The Organization of Distance, Poetry, Translation and Chineseness. (Leiden: Brill, 2018.) Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Resource Center Publication (2020). 11 pages.
Review Article: James M. Hargett, trans. Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010.) China Review International 17.4, (2012). 12 pages.
Review Article: Yugen Wang. Ten Thousand Scrolls, Reading and Writing in the Poetics of Huang Tingjian and the Late Northern Song. (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011.) East Asian Publishing and Society, 2.3, (2013): 225-227.
Encyclopedia Entry: “Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072)” in Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group LLC, 2014). 10 pages.
Encyclopedia Entries: “Su Shi (1037-1101),” “Xin Qiji (1140-1207),” and “song lyric” in the Linsun Cheng, ed. Berkshire Encyclopedia of China (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group LLC, 2009). 2 pages each.
“Chapter 1: Between the Placid Mirror and Roiling Waves: The Materiality of Water and the Literary Imagination of Hangzhou in Poetry of the Tang-Song Era” in Xiaolin Duan and Antonio José Mezcua López, ed. Spring Dawn and Su Causeway: History and Landscape Culture of Hangzhou’s West Lake. (Brill Press, 2026): 27-55.
GEO-POETICS: INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN LOCAL GAZETEERS AND POETRY COLLECTIONS IN SONG CHINA
Book chapters for Investigating Urban Traces: The Geo-poetics of Regional Urban Identity in Southern Song China
“The City in a Garden: The Emergence of the Geo-Poetic Collection in Dong Sigao’s (active 1260-1276) One Hundred Poems on West Lake” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 49 (2020): 235-290.
“A City of Substance: Regional Custom and the Political Landscape of Shaoxing in a Southern Song Rhapsody” in Joseph C.S. Lam, Shuen-fu Lin, and Martin Powers, ed. Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou in the Southern Song (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2017): 235-254.
“Two Halls of Hangzhou: Local Gazetteers and the Grading of Geography in a Song Dynasty City” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China (April 2014): 225-252.
DISPLACEMENT AND MEMORY IN SONG DYNASTY LYRICS
“Southern Osmanthus and Northern Pear: The Garden of Xiang Ziyin (1085-1152) as a Site of Memory in the Writings of Southern Song Literati” Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 4.1 (April 2017): 19-55.
“From the Banquet to the Border: The Transformation of Su Shi’s Song Lyrics into a Poetry of National Loss in the Restoration Era” CLEAR 34 (December 2012): 57-103.
CULTURAL HISTORY OF CHINESE LITERATURE
“Chapter 5: Aesthetics” in Carlos Rojas and Jack W. Chen, ed. A Cultural History of Chinese Literatures: Volume 3, Age of Consolidation (900-1400). London: Bloomsbury Publishing (forthcoming Spring 2026). 27 pages.
Translations and Co-authored Articles:
An annotated translation of “Two Song Dynasty Scholar-officials’ Depictions of Muslim Merchants in Guangzhou” to be included in Ari Levine, Ellen Cong Zhang, and Ya Zuo, ed. Song Dynasty Biji: An Anthology (forthcoming in Spring 2026 with the University of Washington Press): 12 pages.
Co-authored with Professor Liu Xiaojun 劉曉軍 (East China Normal University), “A Literary Anatomy of the Binary Concept of Emptiness-Substance” in Zong-qi Cai, ed. Special Issue of the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture on “Key Terms of Chinese Literary Theory” 12.1 (April 2025): 60-90.
An annotated translation of “An Offering Text for Ouyang Wenzhong” by Su Shi (1037-1101) in Victor H. Mair and Zhenjun Zhang, ed. Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament (Bloomsbury Press, 2024): 195-198.
Chinese to English translation of the chapter on “Memorials and Letters” by Professor Liu Yucai’s 劉玉才 (Beijing University) in Zong-qi Cai, ed. How to Read Chinese Prose (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022): 148-180.
Chinese to English translation of the song lyric “The Charms of Niannu” by Su Shi (1037-1101) in Michael Fuller, ed. An Introduction to Chinese Poetry, From the Canon of Poetry to the Lyrics of the Song Dynasty. (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017): 398-399.
Co-authored with Kathleen Tomlonovic, “Su Shi (1037-1011)” in Tim Wright, ed. Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, April 27, 2017. www.oxfordbibliographies.com.
Co-authored with Zhao Minli 趙敏俐, “A Discussion of the Principles for the Combination of ‘Feet’ in the Pentasyllabic Shi Genre” 論五言詩體的音步組合原理, Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture. Issue 2.2 (Nov. 2015): 286-323.
Review Articles and Encyclopedia Entries:
Review Article: Elegies for Empire, A Poetics of Memory in the Late Work of Du Fu (Cambridge: Harvard University Asian Center, 2024.) Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 12.1 (forthcoming 2026). 21 pages.
Review Article: Alister D. Inglis, The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023.) Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, 55 (forthcoming 2026). 20 pages.
Review Article: Xiaoshan Yang, Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture. (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021.) Han xue yan jiu 漢學研究, 41.1 (2023). 11 pages.
Review Article: Lucas Klein, The Organization of Distance, Poetry, Translation and Chineseness. (Leiden: Brill, 2018.) Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Resource Center Publication (2020). 11 pages.
Review Article: James M. Hargett, trans. Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010.) China Review International 17.4, (2012). 12 pages.
Review Article: Yugen Wang. Ten Thousand Scrolls, Reading and Writing in the Poetics of Huang Tingjian and the Late Northern Song. (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011.) East Asian Publishing and Society, 2.3, (2013): 225-227.
Encyclopedia Entry: “Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072)” in Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group LLC, 2014). 10 pages.
Encyclopedia Entries: “Su Shi (1037-1101),” “Xin Qiji (1140-1207),” and “song lyric” in the Linsun Cheng, ed. Berkshire Encyclopedia of China (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group LLC, 2009). 2 pages each.