Invited Talks
2023 “现当代中国的方言话语” [The Discourse of Fangyan in Modern and Contemporary China], Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China, August 19.
2023 “汉语声调与中国说唱乐” [Linguistic Tones in Chinese Rap Songs], University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, June 30. The link to the talk video
2023 “Daoism and Confucianism in Chinese Films,” University of North Carolina at Greensboro, February 16.
2022 “Translanguaging as a Pedagogical Approach in Chinese Language and (Inter)culture Courses,” Keynote Speaker for the CLTAV State Conference on the Theme of “Chinese Education & Pedagogy—Perspectives on Chinese Teaching and Learning Abroad,” University of Melbourne, Australia, December 9.
2022 “Linguistic Tones in Chinese Rap Songs,” Kim-Renaud East Asian Humanities Lecture Series, George Washington University, November 11.
2022 “A Cultural Study of Chinese Language,” Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA, March 29.
2021 “Teaching Chinese Language and Culture Through Films: An Integrated Approach” (将语言文化融为一体的电影教学: 以电影《洗澡》和《叶问》为例), Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) SIG, December 10. The link to the PPT and the link to the recording.
2018 “The Creation of New Chinese Characters in the Internet Era,” Hamilton College, NY, March 1st.
2016 “The Newly Coined Chinese Characters on the Internet,” North Georgia University, October 10.
2015 “Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Representation of Dialects with Chinese characters on the Internet,” UCLA, Los Angeles, October 22. The link to the podcast
2014 “Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Representation of Dialects with Chinese characters on the Internet,” the “Chinese Language, Culture, and Society” Series, Emory University, February 20.
2013 “Chinese Rap Music and Local Youth Identity in the Age of the Internet,” the Phil McKnight Faculty Seminar Series, Georgia Tech, October 29. The link to the video.
Conference Presentations
2024 “When Western Science Met Chinese Ideograph: A Comparative Study of John Fryer and Wilhelm Lobscheid,” AAS in Asia, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, July 9-11.
2024 “Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Transcription of Shanghai Wu on the Internet,” Emerging Voices of Sound Studies in East Asia, NYU Shanghai, June 22-23.
2023 “Linguistic Tone in Chinese Rap: An Interdisciplinary Approach,” 50th Annual MARAAS (Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association for Asian Studies), Elizabethtown College, September 30.
2022 “Fractality in Chinese Prose,” 50th Annual MARAAS (Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association for Asian Studies), University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 2, 2022
2021 “Language, Identity, and Unintelligibility: A Case Study of the Rap Group Higher Brothers,” Annual Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, January 15-17, hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill, Virtual.
2020 “Language, Identity, and Unintelligibility: A Case Study of the Rap Group Higher Brothers,” 49th Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, October 23-24. Virtual.
2019 “Foreign Trash in China: Dislocation in Wang Jiuliang’s film Plastic China,” Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies conference “Crossing Borders,” El Colegio de México, Mexico, October 18-19.
2018 “Dislocation and Displacement: An Analysis of Wang Jiuliang’s Plastic China,“British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) conference, King’s College London, UK, September 12-14.
2018 “Reinventing Chinese Characters: Gu Wenda’s Artwork,” The 11th Annual Conference, the Centre for Chinese Visual Art, Everyday Legend: Reinventing Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Art, Birmingham City University, UK, September 10-11.
2018 “Affective and Emotive Writing: The Newly Coined Chinese Characters in the Digital Era,” The Fifth International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse (5th ISCLD), University of Sydney, Australia, June 18-20.
2018 “Localization of Sitcom: A Case Study of the Cantonese Wailai xifu bendi lang,” Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Rise of Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture Conference, Guangzhou, China, June 9-10.
2018 “Integrated with the Local? Linguistic Bifurcation in Contemporary Chinese Zhiqing Fiction and Films,” Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Washington DC, March 22-25.
2018 “Problematizing the Local Community Constructed in Laughter: Media Productions in Sichuan Mandarin in Contemporary China,” Modern Language Association (MLA), New York, January 4-7.
2017 “Subversive Writing: Li Xiaoguai’s Newly Coined Chinese Characters and His Comic Blogging,” Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Tokyo, Japan, July 8-9.
2017 “Cultural Preservation and Local Identity: Performativity in Dubbing Films into Chinese Local Languages,” AAS-IN-ASIA Conference, Seoul, South Korea, June 24-27.
2017 “Teaching Advanced Chinese Through Films: An Interdisciplinary Approach,” international conference on “Teaching and Learning Second Languages as a Process of Discovery – Bridging Theories and Practices,” Emory University, GA, March 25.
2017 “Subversive Writing: Li Xiaoguai’s Newly Coined Chinese Characters and His Comic Blogging,” Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Toronto, March 16-19.
2016 “Affective and Emotive Writing: The Newly Coined Chinese Characters on the Internet,” conference on “Emoticons, Emoji and Kaomoji – The Transformation of Communication in the Digital Age,” Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, June 23-24.
2016 “Affective Writing and Subversive Writing: The Newly Coined Chinese Characters on the Internet,” The 10th International Conference on Chinese Writing and Calligraphy Education, Emory University, Atlanta, May 20-22.
2016 “A Historical Review of the Discourse of fangyan in Modern China,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) annual meeting, Harvard University, MA, March 17-20.
2015 “Chinese Language under Globalization,” the 9th annual China Goes Global conference, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, October 1-3.
2015 “A Historical Review of the Discourse of fangyan in Twentieth-Century China,” Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Chicago, March 26-29.
2014 “Minsheng News Talk Shows and the Revival of Traditional Performing Arts in Contemporary China,” in the inaugural AAS-IN-ASIA Conference “Asia in Motion: Heritage and Transformation,” Singapore, July 17-19.
2013 “A Historical Review of the Discourse of the Local in Twentieth-Century China,” Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Tokyo, Japan, June 29-30.
2013 “The Mute Characters in Contemporary Chinese Cinema of Trauma and History,” international conference “Traumatic Memory and Cultural Representation: How Literature Writes History,” Capital Normal University, Beijing, May 26-29.
2012 “Ning Hao’s Blockbuster Crazy Stone and the Recent Trend of Low-Budget Comedy Films,” conference “Cultural Politics in the Visual,” Emory University, Atlanta, GA, November 8-9.
2012 “Psychological Subjectivity in the Use of Sound and Language in Jiang Wen’s Devils on the Doorstep and Lu Chuan’s Missing Gun,” 54th annual conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS), Atlanta, GA, October 12-14.
2012 “Alternative Translation: The Performativity in Dubbing Films in Chinese Local Languages,” annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Toronto, Canada, March 15-18.
2011 “Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,” annual joint conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) & International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Honolulu, HI, March 31- April 3.
2011 “Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,” conference “In the Mix: Asian Popular Music and Culture,” Princeton University, NJ, March 25-26.
2010 “Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,” 2nd Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference (IAPMS), Hong Kong, June 22-23.
2010 “Subversive Writing, Local Identity, and Diaspora: Representation of Dialects with Chinese Characters on the Internet,” the panel “Other Script Politics” at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 1-4.
2009 “The Rhetoric of Chinese Local Language as the Marginal in Jia Zhangke’s films,” the panel “Listening in/to Documentary” at the Visible Evidence XVI conference, Los Angeles, CA, August 13-17.
2009 “Performativity in Dubbing Films in Chinese Local Languages,” 48th annual Southeast conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), Emory University, Atlanta, GA, January 16-18.
2008 “A Proposal to Integrate Dialect Films in Advanced Chinese Language Teaching,” ACTFL/CLTA annual conference, Orlando, FL, November 21-23.
2008 “The Use of Popular Songs in Jia Zhangke’s Films,” 62nd annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), Reno, NV, October 9-11.
2008 “Popular Music and Local Youth Identity in the Age of the Internet: A Case Study of Shanghai Rap and SHN Website,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Atlanta, GA, April 3-6.
2008 “The Use of Chinese Local Languages on the Internet: Youth Language and Local Youth Identity in Urban China,” Fifth International Conference on Youth Language, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, March 27-29.
2005 “Performativity in Dubbing Classical Films in Chinese Local Languages,” International Conference on Canon (Re-)Formation in the Context of Cultural Studies, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, May.
2003 “The Use of Language in City of Sadness,” New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, October.