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Monographs:

Orthodox Passions: Narrating Filial Love during the High Qing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University East Asian Series, 2019.

Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late-Imperial      Chinese Fiction. Harvard University East Asian Series, 2001.

Jingzheng de huayu: MingQing xiaoshuo zhong de zhengtongxing, benzhenxing ji suo shengcheng de yiyi 竟爭的話語：明清小說中的正統性，本真性及所生成之意義 . Luo Lin 落琳 translator. Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2005. (Chinese translation of Competing Discourses)

Articles and Book Chapters:

 “Buddhist-Inflected Patterns of Characterization in Plum.” In Andrew Schonebaum ed., Approaches to Teaching Plum in the Golden Vase (The Golden Lotus). New York: Modern Language Association of America, forthcoming.

“Plum and Filial Piety.”  In Andrew Schonebaum ed., Approaches to Teaching Plum in the Golden Vase (The Golden Lotus). New York: Modern Language Association of America, forthcoming.

 “Li Zhi's Strategic Self-Fashioning: Sketch of a Filial Self,” pp. 38-52. Pauline Lee, Rivi Handler-Spitz, Haun Saussy eds., The Objectionable Li Zhi: Fiction, Syncretism, and Dissent in Late Ming China. University of Washington Press, 2020.

“The Argument for a Woman’s Authorship of the Hou Honglou meng.” Nan nü 22.2 (2020): 223-264.

“Redefining Filial Piety as an Emotion,” pp. 269-313. Yuri Pines and Waiyee Li eds., Keywords. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2020. 

“Turning the Authorial Table: Women Writing Wanton WoMen, Shame, and Jealousy in Two Qing Tanci,” pp. 157-183. In Cuncun Wu and Mark Stevenson eds. Wanton Women, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2017.

 “Making Sense of Bao-yu: Staging Ideology and Aesthetics,” pp. 317-332. In Tina Lu and Andrew Shonebaum, eds., Approaches to Teaching The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2012.

“Patrimonial Bonds: Daughter, Fathers, and Power in Tianyuhua.” Late Imperial China vol. 32, no. 2 (December 2011): 1-33.

“Writing Emotions: Ritual Innovation as Emotional Expression,” Nan nü vol. 11, no. 2 (2009): 155-195.

“Making a Case: Characterizing the Filial Son,” pp. 27-43. In Robert Hegel and Katherine Carlitz eds., Writing and Law in Late Imperial China. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2007.

“Sons and Mothers: The Social Construction of Filial Piety in Late-Imperial China,” pp. 285-300. In Paolo Santangelo, ed., Love, Hatred and Other Passions: Questions and Themes on Emotions in Chinese Civilization.  Leiden: Brill, 2006.

“Rewriting Sexual Ideals in Yesou puyan,” pp. 60-78.  In Larissa Heinrich and Fran Martin, eds., Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation and Chinese Cultures. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006.

"Inscribing the Essentials: Culture and the Body in Ming-Qing Fiction." Ming Studies 41 (1999): 6-36.

"Reflections of Desire: The Poetics of Gender in Dream of the Red Chamber." Nan nü 1.1 (1999): 64-106.

"Engendering Order: Structure, Gender, and Meaning in the Qing Novel Jinghua yuan." Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews 18 (December 1996): 105-131.