Books
Archives of Intimacy: Racial Mixing and Chinese Lives in the Colonial Port City, 1905-1949. Stanford University Press, 2026.
Better Britons: Reproduction, National Identity, and the Afterlife of Empire. University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Modernism and the Queer Theory of Diaspora.” Contemporary Queer Modernism, edited by Melanie Micir, Routledge, 2025.
“Looking With Images: Chinese Diasporic Worldmaking Beyond the Frame.” Modernism/modernity Print Plus “Visualities,” Volume 8, Cycle 1 (2024).
“Decolonizing Across Borders: Diasporic-Indigenous Encounters and the Predicaments of Arrival.” Diaspora and Literary Studies, edited by Angela Naimou, 346-360. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
“Hong Kong in Transition: Photography and Liberation at the End of the Pacific War.”Trans Asia Photography 13, no. 1 (2023).
“Conversation, Collaboration, and the Work of Teaching Global Asia/s” (with Anushay Malik). Verge: Studies in Global Asias 9, no. 1 (2023): 3-14.
“Exit Survey: The Terrain of Struggle.” English Studies in Canada 46, no. 1 (March 2020 [published 2022]): 13-21.
“(Un)Learning at the Edge of Empires.” A & Q feature on “Race, Racialization, and Anti-racism: Theorizing Blackness and Reimagining the Study of Global Asias,” in Verge: Studies in Global Asias 8, no. 1 (2022): 82-88.
“Sweating For Their Pay: Gender, Labor, and Photography Across the Decolonizing Pacific” (with Wesley Attewell). Journal of Asian American Studies 24, no. 2 (2021): 183-217.
“Refocusing the Gaze: Leisure, Power, and Women’s Work in Interwar Hong Kong.” Visualizing China blog, August 2021.
“Between Asia and Empire: Infrastructures of Encounter in the Archive of War” (with Wesley Attewell). Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 20, no. 2 (2019): 162-179.
“Local Knowledge: Of Homecomings and Orientations.” BC Studies 198 (Summer 2018): 25-26.
“Intimacy Out of Doors: Labor, Landscape, and Chinese Diasporic Practices of Looking.” In Photography and Migration, edited by Tanya Sheehan, 199-215. Routledge, 2018.
“Looking in Stereo: School Photography, Interracial Intimacy, and the Pulse of the Archive.”Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 4, no. 1-4 (2018): 19-44.
“Not the Asian You Had in Mind: Race, Precarity, and Academic Labor.”English Language Notes 54, no. 2 (2016): 183-190.
“The Return of the Native: White Supremacy, Indigenous Rights, and the Struggle for Britain.”TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 35 (2016): 173-197.
“Loving Revolutions: Reading Mixed Race at Mid-Century.” In Around 1945: Literature, Citizenship, Rights, edited by Allan Hepburn, 216-239. McGill University Press, 2016.
“‘For Karnak 1923/From London 1942’: Approaching War in H. D.’s The Walls Do Not Fall.”Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature vol. 34, no. 2, 2016, pp. 1-27.
“Reading Closely: Writing (and) Family History in Kim Scott’s Benang.”Postcolonial Text 7, no. 3 (2012).
Special Issues
In/Security (co-edited with Janice Ho). English Language Notes 54, no. 2 (2016).
The Work of Return (co-edited with S. Trimble). TOPIA 35 (2016).