My research interests lie primarily in the study of modern Chinese literature both in its immediate intellectual and political contexts and within the transnational network of knowledge and representations. I am particularly interested in how human sciences, literature, and history intersect in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Engaging humanistic inquiry in broad and interdisciplinary ways, my publications to date and the studies I am currently working on examine the persistence and density of certain enduring tensions in modern thinking, such as those around reason versus intuition, solitude versus solidarity, and energy versus fatigue; these tensions, as my studies demonstrate, become more visible and contextually meaningful when we trace them through different figurative veils across genres, disciplinary divides, and geographic borders.
