Specializes in the history of modern China, with an emphasis on the histories of education, communication, and everyday life during the twentieth century.
Expertise: Asian History
Research Interests
- Modern Chinese history
- Reading and writing history in pre-modern and modern China
- History of everyday life in twentieth-century China
- China’s modern transformation
- Comparative literacy studies
Current Projects
- I am currently working on a book manuscript on literacy’s relations to Chinese social, cultural, and political changes in the first half of the 20th century.
