SELECTED ACADEMIC WORKS

THESES

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2017        Techno-Erotic-Economic Circuit: The Relation of Queer Transactional Sex among Gay Men in Contemporary Urban China                       [Abstract]

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2015        Desire, Cosmopolitanism, and Neoliberalism: College Women Students as Sex Workers in Post-socialist China [Abstract]

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2014        Trapped in the Double-Identity as Consumer and Commodity: Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth [Abstract]

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BOOK CHAPTERS

2018      《性工作还是交易性?: 对于用辞的反思及其他》(Sex Work or Transactional Sex?: Reflections on Terminology and Beyond). In Y.                  Huang & S. Pan (Eds.), 《积淀与反思: 中国 “性” 研究》(Accretion and Reflection: Sexuality Studies of China) (pp. 179-89).                                Hong Kong: 1908 Inc.  

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WORKS IN PROGRESS

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Book chapter Male-Male Transactional Sex and Smartphone Apps in Contemporary Urban China: The Status Quo and Directions for Future Research (Working Title). In preparation to submit to Male Sex Work and Society (Eds: Scott, J., Minichiello, V., Bimbi, D., & Grov, C.). Harrington Park Press (distributed by Columbia University Press). (Invited Chapter)

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CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

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2018          “Disobedient Subjects” and the Ethics of “Good Life”: HIV/AIDS, Sex, and Male Homosexuality in Contemporary                                       Urban China. Paper accepted for the joint 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the                                         Society for Medical Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA., April 4th. [Abstract]

2018          M$M (Men Who Sell Sex to Men) as an Epidemiologic Concept: Broadening and Rethinking the “Risk Population” for                               HIV/AIDS Intervention. Poster for the Global Health Research Day by the Global Health Initiative and Alpert Medical                               School, Brown University, Providence, RI. April 26th. [Poster]

2017          Organizer for the panel entitled Queering Futures: Futures as Forces, Futures as Products, the 2017 Annual Meeting of                               the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., Dec. 1st. [Abstract]

2017          “Why Do You Think You Are Any Different”: Reflections from the Field with Men Who Sell Sex to Men (M$M) in                                        Contemporary China. Paper presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,                                      Washington D.C., November 29th. [Abstract]

2017          Chinese Men Who Sell Sex to Men (M$M): Transactional Sex as a Way of Life in Contemporary China. Paper                                               presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Atlanta, GA, November 11th.                               [Abstract]

2017          Invited panelist for the conference entitled Advanced Topics in Liberty: Origins of Capitalism, the Institute for                                             Humane Studies and Liberty Fund, Inc., Arlington, VA, Sep. 15-17.

2017          Oppression, Work, or Life: A Reflection on Transactional Sex among Men (压迫、工作、抑或生活：对男男性交易的反                               思). Paper presented at the International Conference on Sexualities in China, The Institute of Sexuality and Gender at                                 Renmin University of China & Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China, July 4th. [Abstract]