ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
USC | East Asian Languages & Cultures
Anthropology


RESEARCH
Media Ethnography
Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
Anthropology of Modernity
Collective Memory and Cultural Heritage
Critical Mobility Studies
Documentary Practice
China and the Asia-Pacific
Book:
A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China
(2014, University of Washington Press) is now open access (along with the entire series Studies of Ethnic Groups in China)!
Ethnographic Film:
农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness is distributed by Berkeley Media. The film screened at HERITALES: International Heritage Film Festival, the Museum of International Folk Art, and the Mathers Museum of World Cultures.
News:
I contributed to a discussion on tourism and race, published in the Journal of Tourism History. I've also recently published an essay on theorizing ethnographic film, which is available for free online.