Articles, Book Chapters & Visual Essays
“Japan Lost and Found: Modern Ruins as the Debris of the High-Speed Growth,” in Introducing Japanese Popular Culture, 2nd, ed., Alisa Freedman, ed. London: Routledge, 2023, 401-412.
“Bifucated and Parallel Histories,” in Cold War Camera, Thy Phu and Erina Duganne Durham, eds. NC: Duke University Press, 2022, 195-201.
“The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege,” Positions: Asia Critique, 2022, 523-547.
“As Media Moves People: Notes on the History of (Mis)information,” in (Re)rites of Passage: Asian Canada in Motion, Jasmine Gui, V.T. Nayani, Khanh Tudo, Aaditya Aggarwal, and Philbert Lui, eds. Toronto: Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, 2021, 88-95.
“The People’s Algorithms: Social Credits and the Rise of China’s Big (Br)other,” in The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy, Andrea Mennicken and Robert Salais, eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 71-95.
“Where There Is No Room For Fiction: Urban Demolition and the Politics of Looking in Postsocialist China,” in Capitalism and the Camera, Kevin Coleman and Daniel James, eds. New York: Verso books, 2021, 209-225 (with 4 additional color plates).
“Urbanism of Fear: A Tale of Two Chinese Cold War Cities,” in Cold War Cities: Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945-1965, Richard Brook, Martin Dodge, and Jonathan Hogg, eds. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021, 115-121.
“Unreal Estate: Postsocialist China’s Dystopic Dreamscapes,” Postsocialist Landscapes: Real and Imaginary Spaces from Stalinstadt to Pyongyang, Thomas Lahusen and Schamma Schahadat, eds. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2020, 305-320.
“Ruins for Politics: Selling Industrial Heritage in Postsocialist China’s Rust Belt,” in Constructing Industrial Pasts, Stefan Berger, ed. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2020, 251-269.
“Sending Films to the Countryside,” in Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi, Christian Sorace, Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere, eds. Acton: Australian National University Press, 2019, 243-246.
“Futures and Ruins: The Politics, Aesthetics, and Temporality of nfrastructure,” China Made, vol. 4, no. 2, (April 2019), 78-83.
“Portable and Precarious: Life and Spectacle in China’s Construction Camps,” Radical History Review, vol. 128, no. 132, (October 2018), 173-179.
“Japan Lost and Found: Modern Ruins as the Debris of the High-Speed Growth,” in Introducing Japanese Popular Culture, Alisa Freedman and Toby Sladem, eds. London: Routledge, 2017, 385-398.
“High-Tech Utopianism: The Politics and Poetics of Science Parks in China and India.” Sciences of Giants: China and India in the Twentieth Century, Special Theme Issues: British Journal of the History of Science (BJHS Themes), June 2016. (Co-authored with Diganta Das)
“Unreal Estate and China’s Collective Unconscious,” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, no. 10, (March 2014).
“Policing the Imperial Nation: Sovereignty, International Law, and Civilizing Mission in Late Qing China,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol 52, no. 4, (October 2010), 881-908.
“Herding the Masses: Public Opinion and Democracy in Post-Socialist China,” in China’s Transformations: The Stories behind the Headlines, Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B. Weston, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007, 197-215.
“Identity and Diversity: The Complexities and Contradictions of Chinese Nationalism,” in China beyond the Headlines, Timothy B. Weston and Lionel M. Jensen, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, 147-170.
Books & Edited Volumes
Sciences of Giants: China and India in the Twentieth Century, Special Theme Issues of the British Journal of the History of Science (Inaugural BJHS Themes), June 2016. (Co-edited with an introduction with Jahnavi Phalkey)
Abandoned Futures: A Journey to the Posthuman World. Darlington, UK: Carpet Bombing Culture, 2013.
A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949, Asia-Pacific Modern Series, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.