Associate Professor
Robarts Library, Room 14-131
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Environmental humanities
- Chinese cultural history and literature (20th century)
- History of science
- Modern Chinese cities
Education
PhD, History, University of California at Los Angeles
MA, Literature, University of California at Los Angeles
MA, Literature, Beijing University
BA, Beijing University
Publications
- “Huiwang bei yiwang de weilai: Shengtai zizu yu ziranfeiliao yundong” [Forgotten futures: Permanent agriculture, eco-self-sufficiency, and natural fertilizer movement in modern China] (The China Scholarship : 2020)
- “Diyibu shi jiesha: xiandai renlei xiangxiang de mimi” [The first step is Ahimsa: A secret origin of modern concepts of the human animal] (Jintian (Today) : 2020)
- Shengtai yu Ren 生態与人 [Ecology and Humanity: Special Issue of Environmental Humanities] (Jintian (Today) : 2020)
- “Shijie jintou de nonggeng: Gefei de Wang Chunfeng yu renleiji chuanqi” [Village at the end of the qorld: Geifei’s Looking for the Spring Wind and the genre of chuanqi at the time of Anthropocene] (Macao Polytechnic Institute : 2018)
- “Renleiji de wenhua jiedu: shige, sheying yu shengbing buke chengshou zhiwu” [Awareness of the Anthropocene: Poetry, Photography & Unbearable ‘Things’ in Life] (Tsinghua University : 2016)
- Wuzhi wenhua duben [Material cultural studies reader: An anthology of translations] (Beijing daxue chubanshe : 2008)
- Ren, lishi, jiayuan: Wenhua piping sandiao [Culture in three keys: History, humanities, and homecoming] (People’s Literature Press : 2006)
- Shanghai and the Edges of Empires (University of Minnesota Press : 2005)
- “Re-envisioning the Grand Interior: Gardens and Imperial Status to the Frontier of the Modern” (The Ohio State University : 2002)
- “Hybrid Science versus Modernity: The Practice of the Jiangnan Arsenal, 1867-190" (International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine : 1999)
- Lishi yu xushu [History and narration] (Shaanxi renmin chubanshe : 1998)
- Fuchu lish dibiao: Zhongguo xiandai nuzuojia yanjiu [Breaking the Surface of History: Modern Chinese Women Writers, 1917-1949] (China Times Press : 1993)
- “Female Body and National Myth" (Duke University Press : 1993)
Administrative Service
Associate Chair, Graduate