My published works emerge from my research projects and investigate the dynamic interplay between religious imagination, vernacular literature, and print culture in early modern China. Across diverse genres—including deity encyclopedias, vernacular novels, drama, and illustrated records—I examine how cultural authority was reimagined and mediated through the power of print and circulation.
Academic Monograph
The Sage and His Hagiographies: Writing Wang Yangming as Late Ming Culture, first draft completed.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Confucius, Monks, and Deities: Mediating the Three Teachings in Sanjiao yuanliu soushen daquan 三教源流搜神大全.” Journal of Chinese Religions, forthcoming December 2026.
“Lin Zhao’en without His Teachings: Instructing the ‘Three Teachings’ Morality in Romance of the Three Teachings.” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) 47 (2025): 219–43.
“Staging Wang Yangming’s Sagehood in Ming China.” CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature 43.2 (2024): 100–42. DOI: 10.1353/cop.2024.a948459.
“Picturing the Confucian Sage: The Illustrated Record of Master Wang Yangming and Late Ming Print Culture.” East Asian Publishing and Society 13.2 (2023): 95–132. DOI: 10.1163/22106286-12341377.
Book Review
Review of Katherine Alexander, Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025), Journal of Asian Studies, forthcoming.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Guding Zuming,” “Zhaoan Zongjing,” et al. (9 entries) in An Encyclopedia of Hangzhou Buddhist Culture, Brill, forthcoming June 2026.