Refereed Articles:

• 2023. “National Climate: Zhu Kezhen and the Framing of the Atmosphere in Modern China.” History of Science 62(4): 562-590.
  • Click here to see the published article on Sage Journals.
• 2021. “Frontier Atmosphere: Observation and Regret at Chinese Weather Stations in Tibet, 1939-1949.” The British Journal of the History of Science 54(3): 361-379.
  • Click here to see the published article at Cambridge Core.
• 2019. “Wheat Dreams: Scientific Interventions at Chinese Model Farms in Kham, 1937-49.” In Stephane Gros (ed.), Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
  • Open access: Click here to see the published article on JSTOR.
• 2018. “Hacking the Yak: The Chinese Effort to Improve a Tibetan Animal in the Early Twentieth Century.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 48.
  • Open access: Click here to see the published article at EASTM.
• 2016. “Planting and Its Discontents: Or How Nomads Produced Spaces of Resistance in China’s Erstwhile Xikang Province.” Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 3.
  • Click here for a pre-print version of this article..
  • Click here to see the published article at Project Muse.

In Preparation:

• “When Rural was the Future: Agrarian Nationalism and Industrial Dissent in Modern China.”

Book Reviews:

• 2021. Review of Peter Lavelle, The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China (Columbia University Press, 2020), in Agricultural History 95(4): 692-694.
• 2019. Review of Di Wang, Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2018. For The Chinese Historical Review, Vol. 25, No. 2.
• 2018. Review of David Bello, Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands. Cambridge University Press, 2016. For Agricultural History, Vol. 92, No. 3.

Short Essays:

• 2023. “Fulbright Fellow to Fulbright Faculty: My Circuitous Passage from Chengdu to Ho Chi Minh City.” Fulbright Chronicles Vol. 2, No. 1.
• 2018. “Lost Province: China’s Xikang, Now Tibet And Sichuan, Is Turning 80. But Few People Realize It Ever Existed.” SupChina, December 26, 2018.
• 2012. “Tea with the Gao Brothers: The Gao Brothers Reflect on the 60th Anniversary of the PRC and the Gentrification of the Factory 798 Art District.” In Majella Munroe (ed.), Modern Art Asia, Issues 1-8: Papers on Modern and Contemporary Asian Art. Enzo Arts and Publishing Limited.
• 2010. “Review: Song of Tibet.”Asia Educational Media Services News and Reviews, Issue 36.
• 2010. “Review: Summer Pasture.” Asia Educational Media Services News and Reviews, Issue 36. Web access:
• 2010. “Vertiginous Metamorphosis: The Shanghai Expo and China’s Love Affair with the City.” In Modern Art Asia, Issue Four. Click here for a PDF.
• 2010. “Exhibition Review: STAY REAL Forever, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, 10th June-12th July 2010.” In Modern Art Asia, Issue Four.