Associate Professor
East Asian Languages & Cultures
Anthropology
University of Southern California

Spring 2021: Visiting Fellow
Center for Experimental Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania

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 book series,
Studies of Ethnic Groups in China.
News:
Register for my curated film series "The Contest over 'Indigeneity': Film and Ethnography in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan." Films will screen in late April 2021. Also, my 2020 essay on theorizing ethnographic film is open access.
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.