南加州大学东亚语言文化学院,著有《宋元妇女、财产与儒家反应》Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial LiteratureSinophone Studies: A Critical Reader (with Shu-mei Shih & Chien-hsin Tsai)
他的主要研究领域是东亚和东南亚之间以及这些地区的华语和非华语社区之间跨文化接触和跨语交流。《华语语系考证:挑剔的阅读者》 “ Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature.“” Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press (译为:写中国南海:从中国和东南亚后殖民文学想象南洋)