“Utopia Discovered: Construction of Accessible Grotto-heaven Landscape in Song Literature” in Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 53 (2024): 192-250.
“Lu You and His Poetry” in Routledge Handbook of Traditional Chinese Literature, co-edited by Victor Mair and Zhenjun Zhang. (forthcoming in 2024)
Book translation with co-translator Meimei Zhang. How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang (Columbia University Press, 2018) edited by Cai, Zong-qi. Published as Ruhe yuedu Zhongguo shige: shige wenhua 如何閱讀中國詩歌:詩歌文化 (Beijing: Sanlian Press, 2023).
“Wuzhen pian,” peer-reviewed, Database of Religious History, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia, 2021.
“The Making of Dongxiao Temple in Song and Yuan Poetry” 彙纂、唱和、點景——宋元詩意中的洞霄宮, invited contribution, The Paper, Beijing: Tsinghua University National Heritage Center, December 2020. (in Chinese)
Under review at the Antiquity, “Elixir of Immortality for the Afterlife: The Earliest Evidence of Laboratory Alchemy from an Early Imperial Tomb in Xi’an, China,” co-authored with Zhenzhen Ma, Yingpei Zhu, Jing Shao, Jianxi Li (Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology, Xi’an, China), and Min Li (University of California, Los Angeles).
“Secretly Connected by Rivers: Yuan Haowen’s 元好問 (1190–1257) Vision of Jinan Upon the Mongol Invasion.”
Digital mapping of Yuan Haowen's "Jinan Travelog" 濟南遊記 via ArcGIS StoryMaps.
Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform (Stanford University Press, 2015) by Nanxiu Qian, to be published by Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House.
“Grand Cleanse Grotto-Heaven and Literati’s Reconstruction of Sacred Geography in Song Dynasty” 詩文中的大滌洞天與宋代士大夫對洞天空間的重構, Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2023.
“Observing the Mountains, Seeing the Self: Grotto-heaven Imagination in Song Literature” 觀山見人:宋代詩文中的洞天圖景與想象, International Symposium “Religious Images and Chinese Literature,” Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2023.
“The Development of Daoism in China,” guest lecture, Occidental College, 2023.
“Let the Gate of Utopia Open Wide! Literary Reconstruction of Grotto-heavens in the Song Dynasty,” East Asian Studies, University of California, Irvine, 2022
“Nine Times Reversion in Grotto-heaven: Inner Alchemy and Landscape Imagination in Poetry” 洞天中的九轉:詩歌中的內丹與九曲山水空間想像, Forum on Daoism and Sacred Space 道教與神聖空間, National Key Research Institute for Daoism and Religious Culture Studies, Sichuan University, 2021.
As organizer and presenter
“Religion, Literati Culture, and Technocratic Capacity in the Song State,” organized panel accepted for the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, 2024.
Mapping the Territory--Religion and Place in Asian Humanities. Graduate Student Conference, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA, 2020 Fall-2021 Winter.
As presenter
“Landscape Reimagined: The Poetic Reworking of Pacing the Void Lyrics in the Song Dynasty (960–1279),” American Academy of Religion, 2024.
“Yuan Haowen’s Representation of the Jinan Landscape and His Cultural Geographical Orientation upon the Fall of Jin,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, 2023.
“Causing or Healing Illness: Song Literati’s Bodily Attachment to Natural Landscapes,” American Oriental Society West Branch, 2022.
“Mountain as Corporeal Cauldron: Inner Alchemical Mountainscape in Song Literati Poetry,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, 2021.
“Deciphering Sacred Texts Like Daoist Masters: Song Literati’s Reading of Daoist Literature in Grotto-Heavens,” American Oriental Society West Branch, 2020.
“Immortal Po in Peach Blossoms: Su Shi's Deification in His Posthumous Receptions at Dongxiao Temple,” American Academy of Religion & Society for the Study of Chinese Religions, 2019.
“Returning to Peach Blossom Spring: Song Literati and the Recast of Grotto-Heaven Image,” American Oriental Society West Branch, 2019.
“Investigation of Daoist Temple in Grotto-Heaven Landscape: A Case Study of Dongxiao Temple,” Resources, Exchange, and Society: UCLA Chinese Archaeology Forum, 2019.
2021 ALC Teaching Assistant Award for Excellence in Teaching
2020 Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA
2017 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA
2016–17 Departmental Fellowship, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
2021, 2023, 2024 The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies Conference and Workshop Support Grant
2022 Grant for Asian and Asian American course design at Occidental College
2020 UCHRI Multicampus Graduate Student Working Groups Grant
2020 UCLA Center for Chinese Studies grant for conference organization
2020 UCLA Asia Pacific Center grant for conference organization
2020 UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies grant for conference organization
2020 Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion grant for conference organization