Publications

Books

• The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature (University of Hawai'i Press, 2006)
• The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC-AD 2000 (Atlantic Books, 2006)

Articles

• 'Gao Xingjian, the Nobel Prize, and Chinese Intellectuals: Notes on the Aftermath of the Nobel Prize 2000,' Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 14, no. 2 (Fall, 2002), 1-50
• 'Misty in Roots: Chinese Poetry After Mao,' The Poetry Review 26, no. 3 (Autumn, 2002), 64-68
• 'From Satire to Sensationalism: Chinese Fiction in the 1990s,' China Review, autumn/winter 2001, 28-32
• 'Beijing 2008: The Mixed Messages of Contemporary Chinese Nationalism,' forthcoming in The International Journal of the History of Sport (2008)

Translations

• Dictionary of Maqiao, by Han Shaogong (Columbia University Press, 2003)
• Sky Burial, by Xinran (Chatto and Windus, 2004)
• I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China, by Zhu Wen (Columbia University Press, 2006)
• Serve the People!, by Yan Lianke (Constable and Robinson, 2007)
• Lust, Caution, by Eileen Chang (Penguin Classics, 2007)