As an ethnomusicologist, she has published on traditional Han, Taiwan aboriginal, and contemporary popular musics. The questions most prominent in her scholarly work involve issues of identity formation, indigenous cultural rights, and the meaning and uses of expressive culture in electoral politics. Her book Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan (University of Illinois Press, 2005) won the ASCAP Béla Bartók Award for Excellence in Ethnomusicology and it was also named an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2006" by Choice, the review magazine of the Association for College and Research Libraries.Center for Chinese StudiesPublished: Tuesday, May 05, 2009