Publications

Book Reviews

“One Island, Many Histories,” review of Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order by Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison, and Heaven Does Not Block All Roads: A History of Taiwan Through the Life of Huang Chin-tao by Anna Beth Keim, in Los Angeles Review of Books, August 27, 2025

“6 Years, 4 Raw Human Stories From the New China,” review of Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China’s New Social Order by Yuan Yang, in The New York Times, July 5, 2024

Articles

Co-editor (with Wendy Jia-chen Fu, Miranda Brown, and Donny Santacaterina), “Rumor, Chinese Diets, and COVID-19: Questions and Answers about Chinese Food and Eating Habits,” in Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies 21.1 (Spring 2021), pp. 77-82

“Say No to Bat Fried Rice: Changing the Narrative of Coronavirus and Chinese Food,” in Food and Foodways 28.3 (Fall 2020), pp. 237-49

“What is ‘Chinese’ Food? Historicizing the Concept of Culinary Regionalism,” in Global Food History 6.2 (Summer 2020), pp. 89-109

“The Julia Child of Chinese Cooking, or the Fu Pei-mei of French Food?: Comparative Contexts of Female Culinary Celebrity,” in Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies 18.1 (February 2018), pp. 15-26

“Margaret Sanger in Translation: Gender, Class and Birth Control in 1920s China,” in Journal of Women’s History 29.3 (Fall 2017), pp. 61-83
*Winner of the Journal of Women’s History best article prize for 2017 and 2018

“Replicating the Colonial Expert: The Problem of Translation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Straits Settlements” in Social History 34.4 (November 2009), pp. 428-46

Book Chapters

“The Impact of the Internet on my Historical Research (or How to Publish an Academic Article in Fifteen Years),” in Adventure, Inquiry, Discovery: CLIR-Mellon Fellows and the Archives, Proceedings from the CLIR-Mellon Fellows Reunion Symposium, eds. Yuting Dong et al. (Council on Library and Information Resources, 2023), pp. 110-13.

“North Carolina Chinese Restaurant Journeys,” in Edible North Carolina: A Journey Across a State of Flavor, ed. Marcie Cohen Ferris (The University of North Carolina Press, 2022), pp. 165-75

“A Cookbook in Search of a Country: Fu Pei-mei and the Conundrum of Chinese Culinary Nationalism,” in Culinary Nationalism in Asia, ed. Michelle T. King (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), pp. 56-72

“Working With/In the Archive,” in Research Methods for History, ed. Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 13-29