Select Publications
Monograph:
China's Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II. Under contract with University of Michigan Press. To be published in June 2026. Preorder now: https://press.umich.edu/Books/C/China-s-Date-Debate3
Peer Reviewed Articles:
June 2024. "Complicity and Cold War Politics: The Long Shadow of Unit 731 in Sino-US Relations." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 31(2): 129-155. Theme Issue: Legacies of World War II and the Cold War in U.S.-East Asian Relations.
Winter 2022. “Empathy, Memory, and Teaching East Asia’s World War II.” Education about Asia 27(3): 62-65.
Book Chapters:
September 2024. "Beyond a Site of Memory: The Puppet Emperor Palace Museum." In Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan's Empire. Edited by Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings. Bloomsbury. SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan.
Policy Papers:
May 2022. From Regional to National: Northeastern Scholars and the National Discourse on the War of Resistance against Japan. Published by the Wilson Center in 2021-2022 Wilson Center China Fellowship: Essays on U.S. and China Policy.
Podcasts:
Guest speaker for Sinica Podcast episode “Live from AAS in Seattle: What has become clear to you recently?”, April 3, 2024.
Guest speaker with James Evans for podcast episode “Revisiting China’s Historical Narratives” for the Georgetown Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues, February 21, 2024.
Op-eds:
May 2025. Emily Matson: A Conversation with Ambassador Nicholas Platt. US-China Education Trust.
July 2024. From Victimhood to Victory: The Evolution of China's Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall. Wilson Center Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.
July 2023. How China's leaders changed the history of the War of Resistance to bolster Party prestige. NuVoices.
October 2021. Why it's misleading to call Xi Jinping the "New Mao." NuVoices.
September 2020. Review: Mulan Reinforces Han Ethnonationalism and the Patriarchy. NuVoices.
August 2019. "Your Mother Sacrificed Herself for the Country" - The Idealization of the Female Martyr in China. NuVoices.
Book Reviews:
June 2024. “Reading Natsume Sōseki as a Historian of Twentieth-Century East Asia.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.
December 2020. Book review of Japan’s Island Troubles with China and Korea: Prospects and Challenges for Resolution, ed. Victor Teo and Haruko Satoh. Published in Pacific Affairs, 93 (4).
May 2020. Book review of Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria, ed. Norman Smith. Published in Pacific Affairs, 93 (1).
May 2019. Book review of Significant Soil: Settler and Japan’s Urban Empire in Manchuria by Emer O’Dwyer. Published in Pacific Affairs, 92 (1).
Monograph:
China's Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II. Under contract with University of Michigan Press. To be published in June 2026. Preorder now: https://press.umich.edu/Books/C/China-s-Date-Debate3
Peer Reviewed Articles:
June 2024. "Complicity and Cold War Politics: The Long Shadow of Unit 731 in Sino-US Relations." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 31(2): 129-155. Theme Issue: Legacies of World War II and the Cold War in U.S.-East Asian Relations.
- Awarded “best article prize” at the 2025 Southeast Conference for the Association for Asian Studies
Winter 2022. “Empathy, Memory, and Teaching East Asia’s World War II.” Education about Asia 27(3): 62-65.
Book Chapters:
September 2024. "Beyond a Site of Memory: The Puppet Emperor Palace Museum." In Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan's Empire. Edited by Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings. Bloomsbury. SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan.
Policy Papers:
May 2022. From Regional to National: Northeastern Scholars and the National Discourse on the War of Resistance against Japan. Published by the Wilson Center in 2021-2022 Wilson Center China Fellowship: Essays on U.S. and China Policy.
Podcasts:
Guest speaker for Sinica Podcast episode “Live from AAS in Seattle: What has become clear to you recently?”, April 3, 2024.
Guest speaker with James Evans for podcast episode “Revisiting China’s Historical Narratives” for the Georgetown Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues, February 21, 2024.
Op-eds:
May 2025. Emily Matson: A Conversation with Ambassador Nicholas Platt. US-China Education Trust.
July 2024. From Victimhood to Victory: The Evolution of China's Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall. Wilson Center Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.
July 2023. How China's leaders changed the history of the War of Resistance to bolster Party prestige. NuVoices.
October 2021. Why it's misleading to call Xi Jinping the "New Mao." NuVoices.
September 2020. Review: Mulan Reinforces Han Ethnonationalism and the Patriarchy. NuVoices.
August 2019. "Your Mother Sacrificed Herself for the Country" - The Idealization of the Female Martyr in China. NuVoices.
Book Reviews:
June 2024. “Reading Natsume Sōseki as a Historian of Twentieth-Century East Asia.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.
December 2020. Book review of Japan’s Island Troubles with China and Korea: Prospects and Challenges for Resolution, ed. Victor Teo and Haruko Satoh. Published in Pacific Affairs, 93 (4).
May 2020. Book review of Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria, ed. Norman Smith. Published in Pacific Affairs, 93 (1).
May 2019. Book review of Significant Soil: Settler and Japan’s Urban Empire in Manchuria by Emer O’Dwyer. Published in Pacific Affairs, 92 (1).