Essays and Talks

June Fourth Vigil Speech 2024, Vancouver, June 4, 2024.

What Xi Jinping, the CCP Leadership, and Other People in China Learned from June Fourth,” Paper presented at the International Conference on the Chinese Communist Party’s Historical Experience and Governance in the Xi Jinping Era, National Chengchi University, Taipei, August 31, 2022 (hybrid conference).

Three Ways to Remember Liu Xiaobo,” July 13, 2017.

How to Avoid Falling into Traps When Discussing Urban China: Four Strategies,” July 2016.

Oral Sources and PRC History: Best and Worst Practices,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle, April 2, 2016.

China’s Other Rural Revolutions 中国的另一种乡村革命,” conference presentation delivered in Chinese, China’s Twentieth-Century Revolutions and their Historical Legacies (20世纪的中国革命及其历史遗产), East China Normal University, Shanghai, December 10, 2014.

Finding & Using Grassroots Historical Sources from the Mao Era,” Dissertation Reviews, December 15, 2010.

Sex, Status, and the Cult of the Early Modern: New American Works on China’s Eighteenth Century,” review essay comparing Matthew Sommer’s Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China and William Rowe’s Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China, 2004.