SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books & Monographs

2012 The Middle Class in Neoliberal China: Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces. London: Routledge.

2012 Global Futures in East Asia. (Co-edited with Ann Anagnost and Andrea Arai). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

2010 Neoliberalism and Culture in China and Hong Kong: The Countdown of Time. London: Routledge. [“Introduction”]


Special Issues of Peer-Reviewed Journals

2010 New Media Subversion. (Co-edited with Davin Heckman). A special issue of Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. Issue 7, Spring 2010.

2005 Neo-Liberal Governmentality: Technologies of the Self & Governmental Conduct. A special issue of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. Issue. 10. Spring 2005.


Articles & Book Chapters

Forthcoming “Sexuality and Mass Culture.” In Global History of Sexuality. Edited by Donna Guy and Robert Buffington. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

2012 “Redistribution of the Sensible in Neoliberal China: Real Estate, Cinema, and Aesthetics.” In China and New Left Visions: Political and Cultural Interventions. Edited by Ban Wang and Jie Lu. Boulder, CO: Lexington Books.

2012 “The Middle Class Norm and Responsible Consumption in China’s Risk Society.” In Global Futures in East Asia. Edited by Ann Anagnost, Andrea Arai, and Hai Ren. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

2012 “
Culture.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Anthropology. Edited by John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press.

2010 The Neoliberal State and Risk Society: The Chinese State and the Middle Class,” In China: Critical Critical Theory, Market Society, and Culture,” edited by Russell Berman and Ban Wang, a special issue of TELOS. Issue 151 (Summer 2010).

2010 “Introduction” (co-authored with Davin Heckman). In New Media Subversion, edited by Davin Heckman and Hai Ren. A special issue of Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures.

2009 "Life Spectacles: Media, Business Synergy and Affective Work in Neoliberal China.” In Post-Mao, Post-Bourdieu: Class and Taste in Contemporary China, edited by Yi Zheng and Stephi Donald, a special issue of Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies. Vol. 6, no. 2, July 2009.

2007 “The Landscape of Power: Imagineering Consumer Behavior at China’s Theme Parks,” in The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation, and Self, edited by Scott A. Lukas. Lexington Books.

2006 “The Merit of Time: A Genealogy of the Countdown,” in The End that Does: Art, Science, and Millennial Accomplishment, edited by Cathy Gutierrez and Hillel Scwartz. London: Equinox Publishers.

2005 "Modes of Governance in Neo-liberal Capitalism: An Introduction." Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. Issue. 10. Spring 2005.

2005 "Subculture as a Neo-Liberal Conduct of Life in Leisure and Consumption." Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. Issue. 10. Spring 2005.

2004 “The Countdown of Time and the Practice of Everyday Life.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. Issue 8, Spring 2004.