Journal Articles

Ma Jian and Gao Xingjian: Intellectual Nomadism and Exilic Consciousness in Sinophone Literature, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Vol. 41.2 (2014).

(Co-authored with Colin S. Hawes) "Primetime Dispute Resolution: Reality TV Mediation Shows in China's 'Harmonious Society,'" Law & Society Review, Vol. 47 issue 4 (2013), 739-770. Download

“The “Affective Alliance”: Undercover, Internet Media Fandom, and New Forms of Social Connectedness in Post-socialist China,” Modern Chinese literature and Culture, 24 (1) Spring, 2012. Download

可能性的空间：加拿大本土制作的华语电视节目中的公民对话与多元文化身份认同 ("Space of
Possibilities": Civic Discourse and Multicultural Citizenship in Locally Produced Chinese Television Programs in Metro Vancouver), translated by Tang Yang, 全球传媒学刊 (Global Media Journal, Chinese edition), Vol. 14 (Summer 2013), 31-43. Download

金山想象与世界文学版图中的汉语族裔写作 (Imagining Golden Mountain: Chinese Ethnic Writing in World Literature) ， in 《华文文学》(Literature in Chinese)，2012 (5), 5-16. Download

"Le changement à travers le mélodrame" (Melodrama for Change), trans. by Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Revue Anthropologie et Sociétés, 36 (1-2), 2012, 115-138. Download

下崗女工, 苦情戲, 及中國電視劇的情感空間 (Laid-off Female Workers, Drama of Bitter Emotions, and the Affective Articulation of Chinese TV drama), 《傳播與社會學刊》 (Communication and Society). Vol. 19 (2012), 31-58. Download

“Space of Possibilities”: Civic Discourse and Multicultural Citizenship in Locally Produced Chinese Television Programs in Metro Vancouver,” Journal of international Migration and Integration, 2011. Download

“Cultural propaganda in the age of economic reform: Popular media and the social construction of Shanxi merchants in contemporary China”, The China Journal, No. 63 (Jan. 2010), 79-99. Download

“Genre Film, Media Corporations and the Commercialization of the Chinese Film Industry: The Case of New Year Comedies,” in Asian Studies Review, Volume 31, Issue 3, (Sept. 2007), 227-242. Download

“重建帝国: 历史正剧和文化民族主义在大众文化中的新的表现形式” (Rebuilding the Empire: Historical TV Drama and Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary China), in Portal: Electronic Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney Press, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2007) (special issue in Chinese on “The Revival of Chinese Cultural Nationalism”). Download

“Big Shot from Beijing: Feng Xiaogang’s ‘He sui pian’ and Contemporary Chinese Commercial Film,” in Asian Cinema, 14.1 (Spring/Summer, 2003), 175-87. Download

“For Reference Only: Restricted Publication and Circulation of Foreign Literature During the Cultural Revolution,” in Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Vol. 2 (Summer, 2002), 76-85. Download

“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Chinese Literary Journals in the Market,” in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Vol.14, No.1 (Spring, 2002), 93-144. Download

“Swan and Spider Eater in Problematic Memoirs of Cultural Revolution,” in Positions： East Asia Cultures Critique, Vol. 7.1 (Spring 1999), 239-52. Download