• Professor, Modern Chinese History
• Ph.D. 1990, Stanford University (Chinese History)
• M.A. 1982, Stanford University (History)
• Editorial Board, Twentieth Century China (2008-present)
• Modern China Editor, Journal of Asian Studies (2004-2006)

Books and Edited Volumes in Print and in Preparation

• Native Place, City and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937 (University of California Press, 1995).

• Transnationalism and the Chinese Press, Special Issue of China Review 4:1 (April 2004). Guest Editor

• Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). Co-edited with Wendy Larson.
• Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World (Routledge, April 2012). Co-edited with David S.G. Goodman
• Stained with Spots of Blood: The Romance of the Bourgeois Public in 1920s Shanghai, monograph in preparation.

Recent Research Articles

• "Colonialism and China," in Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China (2012)
• "Things Unheard of East or West: Colonial Contamination and Cultural Purity in Early Chinese Stock Exchanges" (2012).
• "Words of Blood and Tears: Petty Urbanites Write Emotion," Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China (2009).
• "What is in a Network? Local, Personal and Public Loyalties and Conceptions of the State and Social Welfare, in At the Crossroads of Empires, Middlemen, Social Networks, and Statebuilding in Republican Shanghai (Stanford University Press, 2007).
• "Appealing to the Public: Newspaper Presentation and Adjudication of Emotion," Twentieth-Century China (2006).
• "The New Woman Commits Suicide: The Press, Cultural Memory and the New Republic," Journal of Asian Studies (2005).
• "Unvirtuous Exchanges: Women and the Corruptions of the Stock Market in Early Republican Shanghai," in Women in China: The Republican Period in Historical Perspective (LIT Verlag, 2005).
• "The Vocational Woman and the Elusiveness of 'Personhood' in Early Republican China," in Gender in Motion (2005).
• "Axes of Gender: Divisions of Labor and Spatial Separation," in Gender in Motion (2005).
• "Semi-Colonialism, Transnational Ties, and Press Culture in Early Republican Shanghai," China Review ((2004).
• "Democratic Calisthenics: The Culture of Urban Associations in the New Republic," in Elizabeth Perry and Merle Goldman, eds., Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Contemporary China (Harvard University Press, 2002).
• "Improvisations on a Semi-Colonial Theme, or, How to Read a Celebration of Transnational Urban Community, JAS (2000).
• "Being Public: The Politics of Representation in 1918 Shanghai," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (2000).

Major Fellowships, Grants, Honors

• Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2012-13).
• Membership, Faculty of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study (2012, declined)
• Faculty Excellence Award, 2007-2011
• Visiting Researcher, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (Nov/Dec. 2005)
• Petrone Fellow, 2004-2007
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2003)
• Coleman and Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities (2002 and 2012)
• Association for Asian Studies Conference Grant, Co-Author (2001)
• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Conference Grant, Co-Author (2001)
• Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études, Paris (June 1999)
• Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (1998-99)

Conference Organization

• Co-Organizer, "Area Studies in Global Context: The 'Place' of Asia" UO (2012).
• Co-Organizer, International Conference on "Colonialism and Chinese Localities," Qingdao (2007).
• Organizer, International Workshop on "Newspapers and Transnational Journalism in Late Imperial and Republican China," UO (2002).
• Co-Organizer, "Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China," UO (2001).