“Finding a Home for the Video Essay: Videographic Criticism and the Study of Chinese Television Drama,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas, July 1, 2024
“I Will Find You a Private Home: Shanghai Real Estate on Television, 1997–2020” (a work-in-progress video essay)
“Other Worlds: A Genealogy from Lu Yao’s Capitalist Realism to Maoni’s Internet Literature,” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 35, issue 1 (June 2023)
“Chinese Television at Midnight: Socialist Television Aesthetics in the People’s Republic of China during the Early Reform Era,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas, September 1, 2022
“The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, edited by Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang” [Review], Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center, June 16, 2022
“Jing Meng, Fragmented Memories and Screening Nostalgia for the Cultural Revolution” [Review], Screen, Volume 62, Issue 3, Autumn 2021
[Chinese] “What Is the World of Literature?” [什麼是文學的世界？], trans. Chen Jingling, A New Literary History of Modern China 哈佛新編中國現代文學史, ed. David Der-wei Wang, (Taipei: Maitian chubanshe, 2021), pp. 477–480
“Lu Yao’s Life and the Chinese Dream,” Popula, February 13, 2020
“Love You Unconditionally—On Wang Shuo,” Asymptote, April 2019
[Chinese] “The Forest for the Trees: On the Harvard New Literary History of Modern China’s Harvard Characteristics [目不见睫：论哈佛《新编中国现代文学史》的哈佛特色], Research in Chinese Language and Literature《汉语言文学研究》, June 2018
“Eileen Chang, Little Reunions,” Asymptote, April 2018
“Yeng Pway Ngon’s ‘Unrest,’” The White Review, March 2018
“In Review: ‘The Years, Months, Days’ by Yan Lianke,” Asymptote Blog, December 2017
“If He Hadn’t Heard It Nothing Would Have Happened—On the Scholarship and Translations of Patrick Hanan,” Asymptote, November 2017
“Superfluous Things: Ge Fei and the Chinese Tradition of Taste,” Vassar Review, May 2017
Co-authored with Kyle Shernuk, “From the Margins to the Mainstream: A Tale of Two Wangs” in A New Literary History of Modern China (Harvard UP, March 2017)
“Ji Xianlin's The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution,” Asymptote, April 2016
“My 2015,” Asymptote Blog, December 23, 2015
“K'ung Shang-jen's The Peach Blossom Fan,” Asymptote, October 2015
“In Review: 'Four Books' by Yan Lianke,” Asymptote Blog, March 31, 2015
“In Review: 'Phoenix' by Ouyang Jianghe,” Asymptote Blog, January 7, 2015
“In Review: 'A Tabby-cat's Tale' by Han Dong,” Asymptote Blog, September 22nd 2014
“Qiu Miaojin's Last Words from Montmartre,” Asymptote, July 2014
“Review: Zhong Lihe. From the Old Country: Stories and Sketches of China and Taiwan,” The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. XXXIV, #1, Spring 2014
“Dylan Suher on Tao Lin and Murong Xuecun,” Asymptote, January 2014
“Mo Yan's Pow! and Sandalwood Death,” Asymptote, January 2013
“Qian Zhongshu's Humans, Beasts and Ghosts,” Asymptote, July 2012
“Review: Charles Fourier. The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy,” The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. XXXI, #3, Fall 2011
“High Stakes: Danielle Evans’s Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self,” The Millions, January 2011
“The Beauty That Lies in Wasted Time: On Cao Xueqin’s Dream of the Red Chamber,” The Millions, July 2010