Publications

Book

• Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China (Forthcoming from Stanford University Press in January 2025)

Peer-reviewed Articles

• • “Teaching Digital Landscapes: Incorporating Virtual Reality to Chinese Environmental Learning.” The Sage Handbook on China's Environment (Accepted; 2026) 

  • “Tunnels of Power: The Cultural Politics of the Beijing Subway.” Modern Asian Studies (First Author, co-authored with Yanjun Liu; 2024; Forthcoming)

• “Inventing Climate Change: Nature and Nation in Late Qing Chinese Science Fiction.” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 21.1 (Spring 2024; Forthcoming)

• “The Dim Religious Reverence: Spiritualizing Nature and Ethnic Resilience in Chi Zijian’s The Last Quarter of the Moon.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 31.2 (Summer 2024): 374-394.

• “Migrant Worker Bildungsroman: The Promises and Pitfalls of Coming of Age in Chinese Migrant Workers’ Writings.” Chinese Literature and Thought Today. 54.3-4 (2023): 95-105.

• “Selling Forestry Revolution: The Rhetoric of Afforestation in Socialist China, 1949-61.” Environmental History 25.1 (2020): 62-84. (First Author, co-authored with Yanjun Liu)

• “Sinification by Greening: Politics, Nature, and Ethnic Borderlands in Maoist Ecocinema.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 10.1 (2017): 46-68. 

  • • Reprinted in Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema: Reimagining a Field. edited by Sheldon Lu and Haomin Gong. New York: Routledge, 2019, 199-222.

• “Reading Climate Change in the Anthropocene: Material Ecocriticism and Chinese Environmental Literature.” Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. 21.2 (2017): 138-151 (First Author, co-authored with Yanjun Liu)

• “Red China, Green Amnesia: Locating Environmental Justice in Contemporary Chinese Literature.” in Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism edited by Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran. New York: Lexington Books, (2014; First Author, co-authored with Yanjun Liu; 33-58).

• “Echoes from the Opposite Shore: Chinese Ecocritical Studies as a Transpacific Dialogue Delayed.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 21.4 (2014): 821-43.

Book Reviews

• Visser, Robin. Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023). ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 31.1 (2024): 233-34.

• Fedman, David. Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020) Environmental History. 26.2 (2021): 369-71.

• Quammen, David. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (New York: Norton, 2012). ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 20.4 (2013): 913-14.

Articles in Chinese Language

• • “Reconciliation and Collision: The Epistemology of Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence 融合与碰撞:后殖民生态批评的认识论与慢性暴力.” Journal of Poyang Lake 鄱阳湖学刊, 34.1 (2015): 96-102.

    • Reprinted in Siyi 思逸, 3.1 (2016):79-88.

•  “Power Discourse Construction of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Slavery Context <汤姆叔叔的小屋>中奴隶制语境下权力话语的建构.” Journal of Literature and Language 语文学刊, 22.11 (2012): 101-02.

• “Ecological Thought of Henry David Thoreau 梭罗的生态思辨.” Journal of Literature and Language 语文学刊, 22.7 (2012): 64-65.

Translation

• “Environmentalism and Postcolonialism” 环境主义与后殖民主义 by Rob Nixon into Chinese. Published in Journal of Poyang Lake 鄱阳湖学刊 (flagship journal on environmental humanities in China) 37.1 (2018):76-89.

  • Reprinted in Xinhua Article Digest 新华文摘电子版 (E-version, Jan 2019, 1011-27).

  • Reprinted in Chinese translation of African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory (New York: Blackwell, 1997; 非洲文学批评史稿. Shanghai: East Normal University Press, 2020, 927-38).