She does research on tourism and landscape planning practices in ethnic villages of Southwest China. Her fieldwork sites includes a Tunpu village in Guizhou which run tourism business by a provincial company and a Sani Yi village in which tourism is run by local households. She authored a book Producing through Landscaping: A Decade of Tourism Development in a Tunpu Village from Southwest China (2014), and several papers discussing how, and especially when institutionalized tourism development and landscape planning projects influence local people's daily lives. She is also interested in eco-museum practices and heritage management in China.