China Initiative
Publications
Bureaucracies at War (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Bureaucracies at War examines how national security institutions shape the quality of bureaucratic information upon which leaders base their choice for conflict.
Daughters of the Flower Flagrant Garden (Norton, 2023)
A story about two sisters separated by China's civil war.
Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue (Univ. of California, 2023)
An ethnographic exploration of two American organizations that offer vocational training in jewelry production to women migrants in China and Thailand as a path out of sex work.
Revisiting Women's Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China (Duke UP, 2021)
Revisiting Women’s Cinema ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women filmmakers in modern China.