Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Towers in the Void: Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese Media, Columbia University Press, 2023.

“False Bound Feet and Forged Paintings: Propping Up Gender in Early Modern Chinese Theatre,” in Sean Metzger and Roberta Mock, eds., The Methuen Handbook to Gender and Theatre, Bloomsbury Publishing, forthcoming December 2023.

A Much-Desired Match: Playwriting, Stagecraft, and Entrepreneurship,” in Patricia Sieber and Regina Llamas, eds., How to Read Chinese Drama, Columbia University Press, 2022. 257-284.

“Science Fictions: Early Modern Technological Change and Literary Response.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 17.2 (2017): 112-146.

“Seeing through Pictures and Poetry: A History of Lenses.” With Kristina Kleutghen. Late Imperial China 38.1 (2017): 47-112.

“Transgender Performance in Early Modern China.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 24.2 (Summer 2013): 130-149. Chinese version: 邝师华 (S.E. Kile). “Zaoqi jindai Zhongguo de kuaxingbie biaoyan 早期近代中国的跨性别表演” in Zhongguo xing/bie: lishi chayi 中国性/别:历史差异. Shanghai: Sanlian, 2015.

Essays and Reviews

Review of The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality, by Ling Hon Lam (Columbia University Press, 2018). CHINOPERL (Chinese Oral and Performing Literatures) Papers 38.2 (2019): 165-170.

Commentary on “‘An Honest Bed: The Scene of Life and Death in Later Medieval England,’ by Katherine L. French, Kathryn A. Smith, and Sarah Stanbury.” Fragments 7 (2018), 64-72.

Review of Idle Talk Under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection, compiled by Aina the Layman, with commentary by Ziran the Eccentric Wanderer, edited by Robert E. Hegel (Washington University Press, 2017). Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 2017: 7 pp. http://u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/kile/

“The Values of Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China.” Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-being of Nations, Beloit College (2016): 97-113.

Review of Worldly Stage: Theatricality in Seventeenth-Century China, by Sophie Volpp, (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011). Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) 35 (2013): 220-223.

Performance Review of “Sensational Kunqu: The April 2010 Beijing Production of Lianxiang ban (Women in Love),” CHINOPERL Papers (Chinese Oral and Performing Literatures Papers) 30.1 (2011): 215-222.

“Li Yu’s Casual Expressions of Idle Feelings, or Fashioning a Natural Beauty,” in E. Azouley, E. Demain, D. Frioux, eds. 100,000 Years of Beauty: Classical Age/Confrontations. Paris: Gallimard, 2009. 105-107.

Translations

You Tong’s zaju play, Heibei wei 黑白衛 (Black and White Donkeys), with introduction, for Zaju Plays of the Ming and Qing, ed. Wilt Idema, Columbia University Press (forthcoming 2023)

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