Academic Publications
Books
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2020 Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction. Columbia University Press.
New York Times Op-ed: "Just How White is the Book Industry"
The Nation, interview
ASAP Journal “Books in Conversation,” feature
New Books Network, interview
Excerpt from Introduction in Lithub: "The Inertia of Whiteness in the World of Postwar Publishing"
2016 Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network. Columbia University Press.
Awards: Modernist Studies Association, First Book Prize: Finalist
Reviewed in Los Angeles Book Review (LARB), American Literary History, American Literature, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literary Studies, Frontiers of Chinese Literary Studies, Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Journal of Chinese Overseas, Journal of American History, World History Connected, Chinese Letters, Essays and Reviews (CLEAR), Journal of American Studies, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature
Interview: New Books Network, link
Read the introduction: link
Journal Articles
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2021 "Narrative Theory for Computational Narrative Understanding." With David Bamman and Andrew Piper. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
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2021 "Can We Map Culture?" With Ted Underwood, Journal of Cultural Analytics, June 2021.
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2021 "Contemporary Culture after Data Science," Post-45 and Journal of Cultural Analytics, April 2021.
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2020 "Race and Distant Reading." With Edwin Roland. Publication of the Modern Language Association (PMLA), special issue on "Varieties of Digital Humanities," January 2020.
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2019 "Economics, Race and the US Novel: A Quantitative History." With Dan Sinykin and Jessica Young. American Literary History (ALH), special issue on "Economics and Literature," October 2019.
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2019 "Race, Writing, and Computation: Racial Difference and the US Novel, 1880-2000." With Hoyt Long and Yuancheng Zhu. The Journal of Cultural Analytics, January 11, 2019.
2017 “All Models are Wrong: A Response to Franco Moretti,” Publication of the Modern Language Association (PMLA). October 2017.
2017 “The Invention of the Global MFA: Taiwanese Writers at Iowa, 1963-1979.” American Literary History (ALH). Fall 2017. Volume 29, Volume 3.
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2016 “Turbulent Flow: A Computational Model of World Literature.” With Hoyt Long. Modern Language Quarterly. Volume 77, Number 3, pp. 345-367.
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2016 “Literary Pattern Recognition: Modernism Between Close Reading and Machine Learning.” With Hoyt Long. Critical Inquiry. Winter 2016. Volume 42, Number 2, pp. 235-267.
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2013 “Literary Information Warfare: Eileen Chang, the State Department, and Cold War Media Aesthetics.” American Literature. December 2013. Volume 85, Number 4, pp. 719-744.
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2013 “Network Analysis and the Sociology of Modernism.” With Hoyt Long. Boundary 2. Summer 2013, Volume 40, Number 2, pp. 147-182.
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2010 “Fictions of Natural Democracy: Pearl Buck, The Good Earth, and the Asian American Subject.” Representations, Fall 2010, Volume 112, pp. 87-111.
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2010 “Collaboration and Translation: Lin Yutang and the Archive of Asian American Fiction.” Modern Fiction Studies, Spring 2010, Volume 56, Number 1, pp. 40-62.
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2008 “Chinese Exclusion Fiction and Global Histories of Race: HT Tsiang and Theodore Dreiser.” Genre, Fall 2008, Volume 39, Number 4, pp. 1-25
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