Selected Publications

• “Waving the Red Flag: Cultural Memory and Grass-roots Protest in Housing Disputes in China.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Vol. 22, No 1, 2010 (Spring), pp. 197-232.
• “Bridge under Water: The Dilemma of the Chinese Petition System.”  China Currents, China Research Center, Atlanta Vol. 7, No. 1, 2008 (Winter); http://www.chinacurrents.com/winter_2008/cc_shao.htm.
• “A Community of the Dispersed: the Culture of Neighborhood Stock Markets in Contemporary Shanghai.” Chinese Historical Review Vol. 14, No. 2, 2007 (Fall), pp. 212-239.
• Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890-1930 (Stanford University Press, 2004).
• "Exhibiting the Modern: the Creation of the first Chinese Museum, 1905-1930," The China Quarterly 179, (Sept. 2004).
• "Tempest Over Teapots: The Vilification of Teahouse Culture in Early Republican China," Journal of Asian Studies 57 (1998).
• "Space, Time, and Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Nantong," Modern China 23 (1997).
• "The Mismatch: Ouyang Yuqian, Zhang Jian, and the Theater Reform of Nantong, 1919-1922," Chinoperl (1996).

 

Academic Honors and Scholarships (most recent)

• Co-PI, Title VI-B (BIE-Business and International Education) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, $163,691. Project titled: "Expanding International Business Education at TCNJ to China" 2010-2012 (with Dr. Linghui Tang).
• Scholar Grant, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, deferred to 2008-09 from 2007-08.
• Residential Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2007-08.
• Residential Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 2007-08 (declined).
• Weatherhead Resident Scholar Fellowship, School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2007-08 (declined).

 

Presentations (most recent)

• “Chinese Society, Culture, and Business Practice.” Nordland Day of Norwegian Pavilion, World Expo, Shanghai, China, October 19-20, 2010.
• “New Scholarship on Chinese Studies.” Zhejiang Univeristy, Hangzhou, China October 18, 2010.
• "Protest as History Narrative in Shanghai." Historical Society for Twentieth Century China Biennial Conference on "A Century of Change since the 1911 Revolution: Crises and Responses in 20th Century China." Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, June 26-27, 2010.
• “Urban Development and Daily Life: A Comparative Study of Xintiandi and Siena.”   International Conference on “Shanghai: the Global City Aspiration and the Transformation of the Everyday.” Shanghai, East China Normal University, June 18-22, 2010.
• “Iconic Shanghai: The New World and Its Shadow.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, March 25-28, 2010.
• "The New World and Old Nightmares: Outside Capital, Inside Dealing, and Property Seizure in Shanghai.” Asian Neighborhood Research Group Workshop on “Mobility and Territory,” Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 17-19, 2009.
• "To Steal a House is a Casual Dish: Property Issue in Shanghai." Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 17, 2009.

 

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