Articles & Book Chapters
2024. “Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London.” Co-authored with Ana Aceska, Karolina Doughty, Muhammet Esat Tiryaki, Katherine Robinson, and Eva Tisnikar. Urban Studies.
2022. “Honorary Shanghairen or Forever Waidiren: Vernacular, Social Integration, and the Ambiguity of local identity (永远的外地人还是名义上的上海人: 语言批判、社会阶层和地方身份的模糊性).” Journal of Shanghai Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) 上海师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版). 51(05): 126-36.
2021. “How to Study the Linguistic Landscape of a Chinese Megametropolis.” Field Research Methods Lab, London School of Economics
2020. “Chapter 11 ‘Only Shanghainese Can Understand’: Popularity of Vernacular Performance and Shanghainese Identity” in Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai: Cultural Representations from the 20th and 21st Centuries. (Eds.) Lisa Bernstein and Chu-chueh Cheng. State University of New York (SUNY) Press.
2020. Co-authored with Yunpeng Zhang, “Ignorance, Orientalism and Sinophobia in Knowledge Production on COVID-19.” Journal of Economic and Social Geography (Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie). Special Issue: The Geography of the COVID‐19 Pandemic. Volume111, Issue 3:211-223.
2020. “‘Pudong is not My Shanghai’: Displacement, place-identity, and right to the ‘city’ in urban China.” City & Community Volume 19, Issue 2: 330-51.
2018. “Take Me Shopping: Hands-on learning experience in a Consumer Society and Culture course.” Pedagogy piece in Advertising & Society Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 3.
2013. “Chapter 9: Governance on the Production of Identity: Consuming Western High-Culture in Contemporary Shanghai.” in China and the Humanities: At the Crossroads of the Human and the Humane. (Ed). Kang Tchou. Melbourne: Common Ground Publishing. Pp. 161-88. Earlier version appearing in The International Journal of the Humanities, 2009, Vol.7, No.5:19-32.
Book Reviews
2023. Book Review of Urbanization of the People: : The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City. Journal of Asian Studies 82 (4): 682–684.
2022. Book Review of The Future Conditional:The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China. Asian Ethnology 81 (1&2): 334-35.
2022. Book Review of The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Public. Contemporary Sociology: 51(3):204-206.
2017. “What is in an Asian Gene?” Book Review of Aihwa Ong’s Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian city of life. International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter.
2017. Book Review of Rojas, Carlos and Ralph A. Litzinger’s Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China. Journal of International and Global Studies. Volume 8, Number 2:97-9.
2016. Book Review of Valerie Imbruces From Farm to Canal Street: Chinatowns Alternative Food Network in the Global Marketplace. Food, Culture and Society. Volume 19(4): 737-38.
2016. Book Review of Goodman, D. S. G. (ed.) The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, Present Lives. Journal of International and Global Studies. Volume 8, Number 1:81-4.
2014. “Transnational Architectural Production with Chinese Characteristics.” Book Review of Xuefei Ren’s Building Globalization:Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China. Sociological Forum. Volume 29, Number 2:511-15.
2013. Book Review of Jill M. Bystydzienski’s Intercultural Couples: Crossing Boundaries, Negotiating Difference. Social Problems Forum. Volume 44, Issue 3:10-1.