BOOKS
- Signifying the Local: Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland China in the New Millennium, Brill, 2013.
- Chinese Under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China. co-edited with Hongyin Tao, Singapore; London: World Scientific, 2012.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Linguistic Tone in Chinese rap: An Interdisciplinary Approach” (first author and co-authored with Hongyuan Dong, Jiahong Yuan, Haosong Ma, and Amanda She), Journal of New Music Research, 2024.
“Fractality in Chinese Prose” (first author and co-authored with Edward Gunn, Fuad Youssef, Jacob Tharayil, Wyatt Lansford, Ying Zeng), Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Oxford University Press), 2023, vol. 38, no. 2, 604–620.
“Translanguaging as a Pedagogical Practice in Chinese Language and (Inter)culture Courses” (second author and co-authored with Yu Li), Chinese as a Second Language, 2021, vol. 56, no. 2, 89–117.
“Language, Identity and Unintelligibility: A Case Study of the Rap Group Higher Brothers,” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 2021, vol. 7, no. 1, 43–59.
“Dislocation and Displacement: An Analysis of Wang Jiuliang’s Plastic China,” Journal of Chinese Cinema, 2020, vol. 14, no. 3, 181–198.
“Subversive Writing: Li Xiaoguai’s Newly Coined Chinese Characters and His Comic Blogging,” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), 2018, vol. 40, 199–220.
“A Historical Review of the Discourse of Fangyan in Modern China,” Twentieth-Century China, 2016, vol. 41, no. 3, 217–233.
“Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music,” positions: Asia Critique (Duke University Press), 2014, vol. 22, no. 1, 263–292.
“Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Representation of Dialects with Chinese Characters on the Internet,” Chinese Language and Discourse, 2011, vol. 2, no. 1, 58–79.
“Ambivalent Laughter: Comic Sketches in CCTV Spring Festival Eve Gala,” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese (JMLC), 2010, vol. 10, no. 1, 103–121.
“The Rhetoric of Local Languages as the Marginal: Chinese Underground and Independent Films by Jia Zhangke and Others,” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC), 2006, vol. 18, no. 2, 163–205.
“Xiangning fangyan de wenbai yidu (The co-existence of colloquial and literary pronunciations in the Shanxi Xiangning dialect),” Yuwen Yanjiu (Linguistic Researches), 2001, no. 1, 35–45.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Teaching Advanced Chinese Through Films: An Integrated Approach,” in Teaching Film from the People’s Republic of China, co-edited by Zhuoyi Wang, Emily Wilcox, and Hongmei Yu, Modern Language Association, 2024, 255–268.
“Wang Jiuliang’s Plastic China: Unveiling the Façade of Prosperity,” in A Global Humanities Approach to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: Understanding Planet, People, and Prosperity. edited by Kelly Comfort, Routledge, 2024, Chapter 12, 201–213.
“Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Transcription of Shanghai Wu Dialect on the Internet,”in Digital Orality: Vernacular Writing in Online Spaces, co-edited by Cecelia Cutler, May Ahmar, and Wafa Bahri, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, Chapter 5, 129–156.
“Chinese Language in the Global Context” (with Hongyin Tao), The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language, edited by Chan Sin-Wai. Routledge, 2016, Chapter 8, 119–136.
“The Use of Chinese Dialects on the Internet: Youth Language and Local Youth Identity in Urban China,” in Vallah, Gurkensalat 4U & me! Current Perspectives in the Study of Youth Language, edited by J. Normann Jørgensen, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2010, 99-112. A revised and extended version appears in Liu and Tao [ed.], Chinese under Globalization, 2012, 59–78.
“Negotiating Linguistic Identities under Globalization: Language Use in Contemporary China” (with Hongyin Tao), Chinese under Globalization, edited by Liu and Tao, 2012, 203–212. Originally published in Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Vol. 10, Number 1, Spring 2009, 7–10.
BOOK REVIEWS
Book review on Andrea Riemenschnitter, Jessica Imbach, and Justyna Jaguscik, eds. Sinophone Utopias: Exploring Futures Beyond the China Dream (Cambria, 2023), Chinese Literature and Thought Today, vol. 54, issue 3-4, 2023, 162–164. https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2023.2266350.
Book review on Fang Xu’s Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021), Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 82, issue 4, November 2023, 718–720.
Book review on Yurou Zhong’s Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958 (Columbia University Press. 2019), Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), vol. 43, 2021, 204–209.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
“Film Review: China’s Last Peasant in Return to Dust (2022),” China Currents, Vol 22, No. 1, 2023.
“An Overview of Academic Talks and Virtual Events on China Studies (Oct.-Dec. 2020),” posted on Beijing University Comparative Literature social media, December 2020.
“A Cinematic Presentation of Trash: An Interview with Wang Jiuliang,” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) Resource Center, May 2020.