Research

I study religion, gender, and politics in East Asia and transnational diasporic communities.

I am currently writing a book on love as a political discourse in modern China.

Most recent publications:

(Submitted) “State of Hong Kong Studies from a Religious Studies Perspective.” Handbook of Hong Kong Studies, Brill.

(Forthcoming) “Double Decolonization: Bridging ‘East Asia’ and Religious Studies, with Confucianism as an Example”. Implicit Religion.

(Under review) “Sisters, Strangers, Friends: Queering the Political Discourse of Love.” Special issue: Feminist and Queer Critiques of Multiple Empires: The Case of Sinophone Asia, International Feminist Journal of Politics.

(In print) “‘Gods Feast on Holy Smoke, Not Tear Gas!’: Religious Diffusion, Infrapolitics, and Identity Formation in Hong Kong.” Special issue on religion, identity, and social movements in Hong Kong, Journal of Asian Studies (co-editor).

“Diffusion, Polyphony, and Diversity: Introduction to Religion and Social Movements in Hong Kong since 2014.” Special issue on religion, identity, and social movements in Hong Kong, Journal of Asian Studies (co-editor).

(Forthcoming in 2024) “Intimate Negotiations: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth Century Shanghai.” Cambridge World History of Sexualities.

(2023) “‘Eastern Religions are More Spiritual than Western Religions’.” In Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés, volume II, edited by Craig Martin and Brad Stoddard. London: Bloomsbury.

2023 “Beyond Sing Hallelujah to the Lord: Diffused Religion and Religious Co-Optations through Hong Kong.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

2023. “Cosmopolitan (Dis)Illusion: Migration, State Policies, and the Mirage of the Shanghai Exception.” Made in China Journal.

2022 “Lost in Žižek, Redeemed in Cloud Atlas: Buddhism and Other Tales of ‘Asian Religions’ in Western Cinema and Affective Circulation.” In Representing Religion and Film: A Critical Introduction, edited by Tenzan Eaghll and Rebekka King. London: Bloomsbury.

2022 “‘So Many Mothers, So Little Love’: Confucian Hegemony, Parental Governance, and the Discourse of Motherly Love in Hong Kong.” Special issue on power and identity, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, volume 34:1–2, pp. 3–24.

2021 “Christianity and Sinophone Trumpism.” Reflexion 42, pp. 243–250.

2020    “Politics of Love: Love as a Religious and Political Discourse in Modern China through the Lens of Political Leaders.” Critical Research on Religion, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 39–52.

Media coverage: Los Angeles Review of Books, Sixth Tone

2017    “Dao of the Go: Contextualizing Spirituality and the “Spiritual Impact” of AI,” special issue on artificial intelligence and religion in Implicit Religion, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 233–244.

2017    “The Affective Revolution in Modern China: On Two Seminal Works on the Conceptual History of Love.” Siyi, Issue 6 (Winter 2018), pp. 2–5.

2017    Co-authored with Henrietta Harrison, “Francesco Jovino and Catholic Meditation: The Dissemination of Catholicism in Gansu in Mid-Qing China.” Journal of the Study on Religion and History, Vol. 9, pp. 18–32.

2015    “Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence and the Reconceptualisation of Human Self-knowledge,” Anthropology Today, Vol. 31, Issue 6, pp. 3–7 (issue cover).

2015    “Spirituality” as Re-Conceptualisation of the Self: Alan Turing and His Pioneering Ideas on Artificial Intelligence,” Culture and Religion, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 269–90.

2013 “Cloud Atlas,” Journal of Religion and Film 17, No. 2 (2013), Article 14.

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