BOOKS
Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility
Columbia University Press, 2024.
Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions
Co-edited with David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta Niu. Rutgers University Press, 2025.
REFEREED ARTICLES
Introduction to “CODEX: Double Movement, Chaotic Era: Asian Century Fiction and Film,” in “The Asian Century: Idea, Method, and Media,” special issue, Verge: Studies in Global Asias 11.2 (forthcoming, Fall 2025).
“Semiperipherality and the Taiwanese American Novel,” in “Genres of Empire,” eds. Mitch Murray and Alyssa Hunziker, special issue, College Literature 50.2–3 (Spring–Summer 2023). [PDF]
“Uncertain Fictional Objects,” in “The Ordinariness of Cross-Time Relations: Anthropology, Literature, and the Science Fictional,” eds. Andrew Brandel and Naveeda Khan, special issue, Anthropology and Humanism 48.1 (June, 2023). [PDF]
“Science Fictionality and Post-65 Asian American Literature,” American Literary History 33.1 (Spring 2021). [PDF]
“Animacy at the End of History in Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea,” in “The Chinese Factor: Reorienting Global Imaginaries in American Studies,” eds. Chih-ming Wang and Yu-Fang Cho, special issue, American Quarterly 69.3 (September, 2017). [PDF]
“Battle Hymn of the Afropolitan: Sino-African Futures in Ghana Must Go and Americanah,” in “Transpacific Overtures,” eds. Christine Mok and Aimee Bahng, special issue, Journal of Asian American Studies 20.1 (February, 2017). [PDF]
“Techno-Orientalism with Chinese Characteristics: Maureen F. McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang,” Journal of Transnational American Studies 6.1 (2015). Reprinted in Takayumi Tatsumi, ed.,Trans-Pacific Cultural Studies (Tokyo: Sage, 2019). [PDF]
“Melancholy Transcendence: Ted Chiang and Asian American Postracial Form,” Post45: Peer Reviewed (November 6, 2014).
“WordSeer: A Knowledge Synthesis Environment for Textual Data,” ACM Conference of Information and Knowledge Management (2013). [PDF]
GUEST EDITED JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
With co-editors Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Paul Nadal, and Tina Chen. “The Asian Century: Idea, Method, and Media,” special issue, Verge: Studies in Global Asias 11.2 (forthcoming, Fall 2025).
SELECTED NON-REFEREED ARTICLES
“Movement Injuries: On Brian Hioe’s Taipei at Daybreak and Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue.” Los Angeles Review of Books, forthcoming.
“Critical Ethnic Studies” in The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Edited By Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, and Sherryl Vint. Routledge, 2024.
“The Red Shredding: On Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem.’” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 30, 2024.
“Democratic Realism, National Allegory, and the Future of the Asian American Novel,” in “Democracy and the Novel in the US,” eds. Rachel Greenwald Smith and Gordon Hutner, special issue, American Literary History 35.1 (Spring 2023). [PDF]
“Imagining Future Economies,” UCI School of Humanities Blog, January 23, 2020.
“COVID-19 Era Read and Watch List,” UCI School of Humanities Blog, May 13, 2020.
“Andrew Yang and Post-65 Asian America,” American Literary History: Forum, March 3, 2020. [PDF]
“‘Forms of Taboo, Forms of Love’: a review of The Loved Ones by Sonya Chung,” Public Books, July 11, 2017.
“Asian/American Antibodies: An Ending,” Post45: Contemporaries, April 14, 2016.
“Asian/American (Anti-)Bodies: An Introduction,” Post45: Contemporaries, November 23, 2015.
“Not All Nerds,” The New Inquiry, November 4, 2014.
“Review of Who We Be: The Colorization of America by Jeff Chang,” Hyphen, October 21, 2014.
“‘Future Islands’: a review of On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee,” The New Inquiry, May 19, 2014.
“Cartesian Centaurs: Modernism and the Bicycle,” Berkeley English Department Blog, July 11, 2013.