Research Interests:

• Modern Chinese literature
• Drama
• Theater
• Women's literature
• Comparative literature
• Literary theory
• Cultural studies
• Performance studies

Selected Publications:

• Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film and the Afterlives of Propaganda. Columbia University Press, 2016.
• Acting the "Right" Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporary China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002.
• Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-discourse in Post-Mao China. Oxford University Press, 1995.