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  open access, along with the
entire book series,
Studies of Ethnic Groups in China.
News:
From June  2023-May 2024, I am a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage at Humboldt University in Berlin. Also check out my recent article in Made in China Journal.
Ethnographic Film:
农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness is distributed by Berkeley Media.
I am presenting work-in-progress talks based on my next film,
These Days, These Homes,
in April and September 2023.