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


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:
Check out my recently curated film series "The Contest over 'Indigeneity': Film and Ethnography in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan." 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.