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:
On May 1, 2023, I'm at the Penn Center for Experimental Ethnography for CARNIVAL. In September, join me online for a seminar hosted by the Australian National University. Also check out my new 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.