Conference Presentations
“‘BE AMERICAN, SPEAK ENGLISH?’ First-Generation Asian Immigrants’ Language Ideologies and Ethnoracial Identities.” Visibilizing Raciolinguistic Ideologies across Cultures, Languages, and Systems, conference hosted by the Berkeley Language Center. April 6, 2023. Berkeley, California.
“Identity in Flux: Social Class, Linguistic Practice, and Sense of Belonging among Internal Migrants in Shanghai”. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Internal Migration session. August 6, 2022. Los Angeles, California.
The ANA Educational Foundation’s 2022 Visiting Professor Program. New York, NY. June 5-9, 2022.
“New Shanghainese or Never Shanghainese: Urban Dialect, Identity, and Linguistic Right to the City in Shanghai.” The 50th Urban Affairs Association Conference. Washington, DC . April 14, 2022.
“Honorary Shanghairen or Forever Waidiren: Vernacular, Social Integration, and the Ambiguity of Local Identity.” The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars. Panel: Integration, Recognition and Migrant Identities. Kyoto, Japan (remote). August 25, 2021.
“‘My Mom is Shanghainese Too!’: Linguistic discrimination, symbolic ownership, and the ambiguity of Shanghainese identity.” Session Number: 20 The role of sound in the construction of boundaries, identities and senses of belonging in the city, The 2021 Annual Conference of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development. Antwerp, Belgium (remote). July 16, 2021.
"‘My Mom is Shanghainese Too!’: Language Criticism, Social Class, and the Ambiguity of Shanghainese Identity." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Section on Sociology of Culture Roundtable #13 Identity, Meaning Making, and the Life Course (online). August 11, 2020.
“New Shanghainese or Never Shanghainese: Urban Dialect, Identity, and Linguistic Right to the City in Shanghai.” Urban Affairs Association 50th Annual Conference in Washington, DC during the conference dates of April 4, 2020 (conference cancelled due to COVID-19, pending rescheduling).
“ ‘Pudong is not My Shanghai:’ Displacement, place-identity, and right to the ‘city’ in urban China.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in New York City, NY, August 13, 2019.
“Whose Shanghai? Reclaiming rights to the city and symbolic capital imbued urban space.” Urban Affairs Association 49th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California, April 25, 2019.
"The Price of China Dream: Language Endangerment, Upward Mobility, and Social Exclusion in Shanghai." Section on Community and Urban Sociology Refereed Roundtable Session at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC. August 14, 2017.
“China Dream or Local Language in Cosmopolitan Shanghai: State Policies and Place-bound Identity.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. August 22, 2015.
“Against the Law? The Changing Linguistic Landscape of Cosmopolitan Shanghai.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. August 19, 2014.
“The Price of Cosmopolitanism – Is There Space for Local Dialect in the Global Shanghai?” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference Mini Conference on China, Baltimore, MD. February 22, 2014.
“Christmas Markets: Seasonal Theme Parks to Legitimize Commercialization of Urban Public Space”. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY. August 10, 2013.
“Creating a Shanghainese Ethnicity: How a Regional Difference Accelerated into an Ethnic Difference”. Society of the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference, New York, NY. August 10, 2013.
“Commercialization or Re-enchantment: Global Diffusion of Christmas Markets”. Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, San Francisco, CA. April 4, 2013.
“Nirvana of Two Bargain Streets – Comparison between Shanghai and New York”. Research Committee 21– Sociology of Urban and Regional Development, International Sociological Association Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. July 9, 2011.
“Governance on the Production of Identity: Western High-Cultural Consumption in Contemporary Shanghai.” Awarded Session, Society of the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA. August 8, 2009.
“Emulation in Consuming the West: Classical Music Concerts Audiences in Contemporary Shanghai.” Seventh International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Beijing, China. June 3, 2009.
Invited Talks
“Forever Outlanders or Honorary Shanghainese? Language criticism, social class, and the ambiguity of local identity” Social Geography Committee of Chinese Sociological Association – Lecture Series on Post-Space Sociology II, Tongji University, Shanghai. [Online]. December 19, 2020.
“Forever Outsiders or Honorary Shanghairen?: Language criticism, social class, and the ambiguity of local identity.” Found in Translation Working Group, Berkeley Language Center. [online] November 10, 2020.
“The Price of the ‘China Dream’:Identity, language shift, and linguistic capital conversion in Shanghai, China.” Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, City College of New York. March 25, 2019.
“Local Tongue of a Global City: Language Endangerment, Upward Mobility, and Social Exclusion in Shanghai.” City & Society Research Center, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, June 6, 2017.
“'Speak Chinese to me!':National Language Promotion, Linguistic Capital Conversion and Dialect Endangerment in Shanghai, China.” Found in Translation (FIT) Working Group, Berkeley Language Center. February 28, 2017.
“ ‘China Dream’ vs Mother Tongue: State Language Policy and Shanghainese Identity”. Center for Asia Pacific Studies, University of San Francisco. May 2, 2015.
“The Price of Cosmopolitanism – Reclaiming the Linguistic Right to Shanghai”. Fudan University, Shanghai, China. November 22, 2013.