- “The (In)visible Hands of Opium Smuggling in Amitav Ghosh’s Smoke and Ashes.” Global Nineteenth-Century Studies: Forthcoming 2026. 11,000 words.
- Review of Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century (2024) by Audrey Wu Clark. American Literary History (ALH). Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2026.
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“China-US Trade: 1970-present,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies. Edited by Chris Shei and Christine Tsui. Digital platform of Taylor and Francis / Routledge; 2025.
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“Economics and Business: China-US Trade: pre-1949,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies. Edited by Chris Shei and Christine Tsui. Digital platform of Taylor and Francis / Routledge; forthcoming 2026.
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“The China Trade and Transformations in Early U.S. Political Economy.” Review of Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America (2022) by Dael A. Norwood. Diplomatic History (Oxford UP) 47.4 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad032
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“The Last Puritan in Shanghai: The Faded Romance of China Trade Finance and the Queerly Transnational Melancholy of Emily Hahn’ Wartime Opium Smoking.” The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature. Edited by Leslie Bow and Russ Castronovo. Oxford University Press, 2022: 209-245.
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“Extraterritorial Publication and American Missionary Authority about the Opium War: Contesting the Eloquence and Reciprocity of John Quincy Adams’s ‘Lecture on the War with China.” Literature and History, 29.1 (May 2020): 1-23.
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“Once Upon a Time in 1784: American Mercantile Biographies and the Romance of Free Trade Imperialism.” China and Global Modernity, 1784-1919. Edited by William Christie and Q. S. Tong. Sydney University Press, 2020: 109-145.
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“Revising Escape: Frederick Douglass’s Civic Promise of Free Trade and Amitav Ghosh’s Global Geography of Commerce.” In Rethinking America’s Past: Voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection. Edited by Tim Gruenewald. University of Cincinnati Press, 2019: 67-119.
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“The Sacred Fonts and Racial Frames of the American Mission Press: Mongolian Type, Chinese Exclusion, and the Transnational Figuration of Savagery,” American Quarterly 71.1 (March 2019):1-28; Beyond the Page coda.
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“Caleb Cushing and the Corporate Romance of Free Trade Imperialism in Washington Irving’s Astoria (1836),” Literature Compass, 14.9 (September 2017): 1-11.
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“Captivity Narratives.” In Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Eds. Jackson Bryer, Richard Kopley, and Paul Lauter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. (DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199827251-0115).
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“Henry James and the China Trade,” Modern Fiction Studies 60.4 (Winter 2014): 677-710.
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“Reading for Contexts of American Orientalism from the Far East to the Far West,” American Literary History (ALH) 25.3 (Fall 2013): 638-659.
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“Revising First Impressions: American Stereotypes of China and the National Romance of Free Trade” and
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“The Speculative Romance of Early Sino-American Commerce in The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw, the First American Consul at Canton (1847).” In Narratives of Free Trade: The Commercial Cultures of Early US-China Relations , 2012.
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“The Place of Macao In American Literary Studies.” In Introduction to Macaology. Edited by Hao Yufan, Wu Zhiliang, and Lin Guangzhi. Beijing: Shehui Kexue Wenxian Chubanshe, 2012: 289-312.
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Review of Henry James’s Narrative Technique: Consciousness, Perception and Cognition (2010) by Kristin Boudreau, and The Illustration of the Master: Henry James and the Magazine Revolution (2010) by Amy Tucker. In American Literature 84.1 (March 2012): 196-198.
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“Henry James, 1843-1916: A Brief Biography.” In A Historical Guide to Henry James. Edited by John Carlos Rowe and Eric Haralson. Oxford University Press, 2012: 14-52.
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Review of Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel (2008) by Sean Kicummah Teuton, and Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians (2008) by Cari M. Carpenter. In American Literature 82.2 (June 2010): 439-441.
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“Visual Culture.” In Henry James in Context. Edited by David McWhirter. Cambridge University Press, 2010. p. 364-377.
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“Peace, Friendship, and Financial Panic: Reading the Mark of Black Hawk in Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak.” American Literary History. 19.4 (Winter 2007): 771-99.
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“Book review of Oz Frankel, States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States, Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 30.3 (September 2008): pp. 285-87.
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Reviews of The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era by George Yúdice and Individuality Incorporated:Indians and the Multicultural Modern by Joel Pfister. American Literature. 77.3 (Summer 2005).
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“Rising from the stain on a painter’s palette: George Catlin’s Picturesque and the Legibility of Indian Removal.” Nineteenth Century Prose. 29.2 (Fall 2002): 69-93.
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“The Dark Spot in the Picturesque: The Aesthetics of Polygenism and Henry James’s ‘A Landscape Painter.’” American Literature. 74. 1 (Spring 2002): 59-87.
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“The Scarlet Feather: Racial Phantasmagoria in What Maisie Knew.” The Henry James Review. 22.2 (Spring 2001): 128-146.
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“Melville and the Post-Colonial Quandary,” Review of The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Post-Colonial Reader by Geoffrey Sanborn. American Literature. 72.2 (June 2000): 423.
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Critical essays on Henry James, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Yukio Mishima for Short Stories for Students, a series by Gale Research Co.: Detroit, 2000.
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“Haunting Transcendence: The Strategy of Ghosts in Breton and Bataille.” Twentieth-Century Literature. 45.3 (Fall 1999): 347-370.
