His first book, “Sound Rising from the Paper: Nineteenth-century Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic Imagination,” was published in 2014. His second project tentatively entitled, “Idle Chatter: The Productive Uses of Gossip and Rumor in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature,” investigates the local, imperial, and global information networks of the early-modern age. He is also interested in the remediation of late-imperial literature, in particular the way the great novels of the Ming have been turned into a variety of video-games.