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:
I have a new open access essay on Visual Anthropology in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Also, check out a conversation I held with Uyghur filmmaker Mukaddas Mijit, and my  essay on theorizing ethnographic film.
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.