Articles and Book Chapters

  • “PRC History in Crisis and Clover,” in “The Maoism of PRC History: Against Dominant Trends in Anglophone Academia,” ed. Aminda Smith and Fabio Lanza, special issue, Positions: Asia Critique 29, no. 4 (November 2021): 689–718. [non-paywalled version here]
  • “Reluctant and Illegal Migrants in Mao’s China: Civil Defense Evacuation in the Tianjin Region, 1969–1980,” Journal of Chinese History 5, no. 2 (July 2021): 333–349.
  • “High Stakes: Teaching Tiananmen to Chinese Students in Canada,” PRC History Review 4, no. 2 (August 2019): 29–31.
  • “Special Powers” and “Men’s World,” in Perry Link, Jeremy Murray, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds., China Tripping: Anecdotes, Vignettes, and Reflections from Lives Lived with China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), 117­–120, 130–133.
  • “A Policeman, His Gun, and an Alleged Rape: Competing Appeals for Justice in Tianjin, 1966–1979,” in Daniel Leese and Puck Engman, eds., Victims, Perpetrators, and the Role of Law in Maoist China: A Case-Study Approach (De Gruyter, 2018), 127–149.
  • “Moving Targets: Changing Class Labels in Rural Hebei and Henan, 1960–1979,” in Jeremy Brown and Matthew D. Johnson, eds., Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism (Harvard University Press, 2015), 51-76.
  • “Spatial Profiling: Seeing Rural and Urban in Mao’s China,” in James Cook, Joshua Goldstein, Matthew D. Johnson, and Sigrid Schmalzer, eds., Visualizing China: Image, History and Memory in China, 1750-Present (Lexington Books, 2014), 203-218.
  • “Rural Life,” in S. A. Smith, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism (Oxford University Press, 2014), 455-470.
  • “When Things Go Wrong: Accidents and the Legacy of the Mao Era in Today’s China,” in Perry Link, Richard Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds., Restless China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), 11-36.
  • “Teaching Tiananmen: Using Wikipedia in the Undergraduate Classroom to Write about Recent History,” Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (April 2012): 18-19, co-authored with Benedicte Melanie Olsen.
  • “Great Leap City: Surviving the Famine in Tianjin,” in Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer, eds., Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China’s Great Leap Forward and Famine (University of British Columbia Press, 2011), 226-250.
  • “Finding and Using Grassroots Historical Sources from the Mao Era,” Dissertation Reviews, December 15, 2010.
  • “Rebels, Rent, and Tao Xu: Local Elite Identity and Conflict during and after the Taiping Occupation of Jiangnan, 1860-1884,” Late Imperial China, vol. 30, no. 2 (December 2009): 9-38.
  • “Burning the Grassroots: Chen Boda and the Four Cleanups in Suburban Tianjin,” Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 26, no. 1 (2008): 50-69.
  • “From Resisting Communists to Resisting America: Civil War and Korean War in Southwest China, 1950-1951,” in Jeremy Brown and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds., Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People’s Republic of China (Harvard University Press, 2007), 105-129.
  • “Staging Xiaojinzhuang: The City in the Countryside, 1974-1976,” in Joseph W. Esherick, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Andrew Walder, eds., The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History (Stanford University Press, 2006), 153-184.
  •  “The Village in the City: Rural Migrants in 1950s Tianjin,” Chungguksa yongu [The Journal of Chinese Historical Researches, Taegu, Korea] 40 (February 2006): 383–428.
  • “Quietly Working for School-Based Sexuality Education in Mexico: Strategies for Advocacy” (with Susan Pick and Martha Givaudan), Reproductive Health Matters 8, no. 16 (November 2000): 92–102.
  • “Polling as a Means Toward Presidential Autonomy: Emil Hurja, Hadley Cantril and the Roosevelt Administration” (with Robert M. Eisinger), International Journal of Public Opinion Research 10, no. 3 (Autumn 1998): 237–256.