PUBLICATIONS

Books

Harvard Asia Center and Harvard University Press, 2018

Shen Kuo de zhishi shiji 沈括的知識世界, Zhonghua Book Company, 2024

“Wailing Barbarians and Bloody Tears: Affect and Self-Other Imagination in Medieval Eastern Eurasia,” The Chinese Historical Review 32.1 (2025): 1–23.

“Collecting Tears: Lachrymation and Emotions in the Taiping Collectanea,” Oriens Extremus 59 (2022): 225–279.

“Counting Books by the Juan: Material and Conceptual Aspects of the Chinese Book,” Asia Major 35.1 (2022): 33–73.

“Male Tears in Song China (960–1279),” Journal of Chinese Studies 73 (2021), 33–79.

“Zhang Zai’s (1020–1077) Critique of the Senses,” Journal of Chinese History 3 (2019): 83–111.

“‘Ru’ versus ‘Li’: The Divergence between the Generalist and the Specialist in the Northern Song (960−1127),” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 44 (2014): 83–137.

“Beisong shu lun” 北宋數論 (Discourse on Number in the Northern Song), Tang Yanjiu 唐研究 (The Tang Studies) 18 (2012): 475–507.

“The Production of Written Knowledge under the Rubric of Jiyi,” East Asian Science, Technology, and Society 4 (2010): 255–273.

Edited Volume Contributions

“Knowledge and Knowing in Neo-Confucianism,” in Brook Ziporyn and Stephen Walker eds., Routledge Companion to Chinese Philosophy (Milton Park: Routledge, 2026), 418–427

“Keeping Your Ear to the Cosmos: Coherence as the Standard of Good Music in the Northern Song (960−1127) Music Reforms,” Powerful Arguments: Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China, edited by Ari D. Levine, Joachim Kurtz, and Martin Hofmann (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishing, 2020), 277–309.

“Whence Came Sad Tears?,” article with new media elements, in Fluid Matter(s): Flow and Transformation in the History of the Body, edited by Natalie Köhle and Shigehisa Kuriyama. Asian Studies Monograph Series 14 (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2020).

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Short Scholarly Articles

In Memory of Chen Hao (1983-2025) 悼陳昊，Shanghai Book Review 上海書評, May 12, 2025

Appreciation of “Another Look at Li” by Willard J. Peterson, Special Golden Anniversary Section, Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 50 (2021), 219–220.

Pedagogy Essay

"The Peach Blossom Fan with a Modern Twist," as part of the group project "Outside the Box: Teaching East Asian History with Digital Media, Technological Artifacts, and Performative Activities," Education about Asia 24.3 (2019): 49.

Book Reviews

Xuelei Huang, Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), The American Historical Review 130.2 (2025): 867–868.

Peter K. Bol, Localizing Learning: The Literati Enterprise in Wuzhou, 1100–1600 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Asia Center, 2022), Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 84 1&2 (2024): 195–199.

Shengqing Wu and Xuelei Huang eds., Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), Asian Studies Review (2023)

Yunchiahn C. Sena, Bronze and Stone: The Cult of Antiquity in Song Dynasty China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019), East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 54 (2022).

Peter Lorge, Imperial China (London: Oneworld Publications, 2021), China Review International 27.2 (2020): 127–130.

Philip J. Ivanhoe, Three Streams: Confucian Reflections on Learning and the Moral Heart-Mind in China, Korea, and Japan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies 1(2019): 265–270.

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