Academic Staff

• (Under review) Too Sensitive for Video Games? Seriously Playing with Modern Chinese History
• 2023         “Forgotten Leaders: Chinese Hui Muslim Merchants in the Yangzi River Region, 1880s–1940s,” International Journal of Asian Studies 20, no. 2: 439–57. A&HCI
• 2022         “The Chengda Teachers School and Modern China’s Frontier Politics: Ethnicity and Religion in the Implementation of Republican Law, 1925-1949,” The Journal of Asian Studies 81, no. 2: 323-340. A&HCI, SSCI
• 2021         “Lost Voices: Chinese Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Polygamy in the Republican Era,” International Journal of Asian Studies 18, no. 1: 103-17. A&HCI
• 2020         “Understanding the Character Yi in Pre-Opium War Period Canton: A Study of The Merchant Newspaper the Canton Register,” Review of Culture International Edition, no. 62: 90-100.
• 2019         “When the Rule of Law Met Rule by the Party: The Conflicts between Baptist Schools and the Local Guomindang in Republican Suzhou,” Journal of Modern Chinese History 13, no. 2: 274-95. ESCI
• 2018         “The Calendar Reform in Republican China and Its Impact on Religion: A Study of the 1913 Birth Anniversary for Buddha” 论民初历法变革对佛教发展的影响—以1913年佛诞纪念会为例 (Lun minchu lifa biange dui Fojiao fazhan de yingxiang: yi 1913 nian fodan jinian hui weili), Anhui shixue 安徽史学, no.6: 83-90. CSSCI

Association for Asian Studies (Annual Conference – Columbus, Ohio)
• March 2025 – “Imagining a Better Africa and a Better World: The Second Boer War and Modern Chinese Intellectuals”
Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia (Annual Conference – Indonesia) [Panel organizer
• July 2024 - Panel title: Rethinking the impact of cross-boundary exchange of persons, ideas, and products on modern China: A multi-disciplinary and transnational approach
第三届文史研究香港青年學者論壇 (The Third Forum for Young Scholars on Literature and History in Hong Kong), Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology
• March 2024 – Whose Crescent Moon to Follow? The Choice between Traditional Cities and Transnational Metropolises: A Case Study of the 1931 Ramadan in China
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, History Seminar
• November 2022 - “Revisiting Urban Elite Activism in Republican China: A Case Study of Merchant Chen Jingyu, 1880s-1940s”
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Modern Chinese History Research Workshop
• October 2021 - “Chinese Muslim Merchants in the Yangzi River Region”
Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China (Biennial Conference)
• August 2020 - “The Chengda Teachers’ School and the Frontier Policies of the Nationalist Regime”
Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia (Hong Kong) [Paper accepted – conference canceled]
• May 2020 – “Muslim National Salvation during the Second Sino-Japanese War: The Case of Chengda Teachers’ School”
International Young Scholars Forum (Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou)
• December 2018 – “When Judicial Independence Met Rule by the Party”
Qujiang Scholars Forum (Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an)
• September 2018 – “The Calendar Reform in Republican China and Its Impact on Religion,”, Qujiang Scholars Forum, Xi’an, China.
Association for Asian Studies (National Conference – Washington D.C.)
• March 2018 – “Protestant Schools and the Gender Segregation in Republican Suzhou”
Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia (Seoul, South Korea)
• June 2017 – “Struggling with Nationalism: Chengda School and the Cult of Sun Yat-sen”
New England Region Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (Boston.)
• January 2017 – “Grassroot Modernity: The Founding Story of the Chengda Teachers’ School”
Nanjing University (Nanjing, China): Invited Lecture
• June 2016 – “WWI and Chinese Intellectuals’ Understanding of Superstition”
American Academy of Religion - Eastern Regional Conference (Pittsburgh, USA)
• May 2016 – “Understanding Western Superstition in Modern China”

2024 “CHC微講座系列：檔案與近現代歷史研究档案.” Xiaohongshu, http://xhslink.com/a/zf2Bw5jWC8F0

2020 “Emperors’ Dreams and the Spread of Islam and Buddhism into China” 皇帝感梦的神话传说与两大宗教东渐, Yikan 译刊, no.6 (2020): 78-81.