Books:

English-to-Chinese translation of the book China and Japan: Facing History by Ezra Vogel (Harvard University Press, 2019), The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2019.

More Than One Way: Issues and Approaches in East Asian Studies 歷史不止一種寫法:十篇書評裏的歷史學景觀, 香港中文大學出版社，2020年。

Articles:

〈從敵情到學術：英文學界之北韓史研究〉，香港《二十一世紀》，174期（2019年8月），頁101–114。（經過匿名評審）

"More than a Famine: Mass Exodus of 1962 in Northwest Xinjiang," The China Review, Vol. 18, No. 2 (May 2018), pp. 155–183. (peer reviewed)

"Unafraid of the Ghost: Mao Zedong's Victim Mentality and the Two Taiwan Strait Crises in the 1950s" (co-authored with Yang Kuisong), The China Review, Vol. 16, No. 1 (February 2016), pp. 1–34.（peer reviewed）

Research:

My research investigates China's interactions with the outside world since the late nineteenth century. My focus is Xinjiang, a vast Muslim borderland between China and Central Asia. Described as China's "restive region," Xinjiang became a Soviet satellite state in the 1930s. When the Chinese Communist victory over the Nationalists was imminent, the Soviet Union backed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in taking over this region, with the Soviets maintaining only their influence. After the Sino-Soviet split in the late 1950s, Beijing tried in multiple ways to integrate this frontier zone with China proper.

Revised on the basis of my dissertation, my book manuscript "From Soviet Frontier to Chinese Frontier: Northwestern Xinjiang in PRC China, 1949–1963" examines how the rise and demise of the Sino-Soviet alliance impacted ethnic peoples in Northwestern Xinjiang (Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture), and how the CCP transferred fragile suzerainty of Ili into full sovereignty. Using Chinese and Russian archives recently made available, I show how the CCP attempted to eradicate Soviet influence, demarcate borderlands, purge transitional people with Soviet ties, and build up border defense. By placing Xinjiang, an ethnically distinct borderland, at the forefront of 20th-century Chinese history, I intend to understand what frontiers mean to the making of the political entity called "China."

Book Reviews:

評余敏玲：《形塑「新人」：中共宣傳與蘇聯經驗》（中央研究院近代史研究所，2015），《中央研究院近代史研究所集刊》（臺北），第103期（2019年3月），頁127–134。

評巫仁恕：《劫後「天堂」：抗戰淪陷後的蘇州城市生活》（國立台灣大學出版中心，2017），〈再思戰爭下的繁榮城市〉，《二十一世紀》（香港），第169期（2018年10月），頁139–147。

評雷勤風：《大不敬的年代：近代中國新笑史》（麥田出版社，2018），〈不笑不成世界〉，《上海書評》（上海），2018年6月20日。

Review of China's War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance against Japan by Parks M. Coble (Harvard University Press, 2015), The China Review, Vol. 18, No. 1 (February 2018), pp. 169–171 .

評Zwia Lipkin, Useless to the State: "Social Problems" and Social Engineering in Nationalist Nanjing, 1927–1937 (Harvard University press, 2006), 〈於國無用：民國南京的觀瞻所繫〉，《上海書評》（上海），2018年1月23日。

評沈志華：《最後的「天朝」：毛澤東、金日成與中朝關係（1945-1976）》（上、下冊）（香港中文大學出版社，2017），《中央研究院近代史研究所集刊》（臺北），第98期（2017年12月），頁123–128。

評劉曉原：《邊疆中國：二十世紀周邊暨民族關係史述》（香港中文大學出版社，2016），〈從化人到劃界〉，《二十一世紀》（香港），第157期（2016年10月），頁131–141。

Review of Hewei Zhongguo: Jiangyu, minzu, wenhua yu lishi (What Is China?: Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History) by Ge Zhaoguang, The China Review, Vol. 15, No. 1 (April 2015), pp. 248–250.

Review of Zhixue de menjing yu qufa: Wanqing minguo yanjiu de shiliao yu shixue (Methodologies of Historical Writing: Sources and Historiography on late Qing and Republican China) by Sang Bing, The China Review, Vol. 14, No. 2 (October 2014), pp. 280–283.

Conference Presentations:

〈最能掘金的生意：抗戰淪陷後蘇州的人力車業〉，中央研究院近代史研究所主辦「戰爭下的城市」國際學術研討會，2018年12月5–6日。

〈從敵情到學術：英文學界之北韓史研究〉，中央研究院近代史研究所主辦「東亞冷戰史的重構」國際學術研討會，2018年11月19–20日 。

"The Death of A Xiangsheng Performer: How Did Actors from the Old Society Become People's Artists in the Early 1950s?," presented at the 44th Annual Conference on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature, San Diego, California, March 21, 2013.

"Straddling Two Boats: Soviet Aliens as Transnational People in Xinjiang (1949–1963)," presented at the 22nd Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference of East Asia, Columbia University, February 15–16, 2013.

"Public Grief and Popular Opinion in the People's Republic of China in 1953," presented at the 53th annual conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies, University of Pennsylvania, October 14–16, 2011.

"Dissonant Voices under Domination: Dissent Responses to the Chinese Communist Propaganda about the Sino-Soviet Friendship," presented at the 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference in East Asian Studies, Princeton University, June 4–5, 2008.