She is currently working on two book projects germane to this conference: Illegible Cities: Translating Early Modern China is devoted to understanding the institutional, textual, social, and epistemic history of official translation bureaus in China from the fifteenth through mid-eighteenth centuries; Recipes for Exchange: Drugs and Empire in Chinese Early Modernity explores translations among Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, Uyghur, and Tibetan medical and scientific cultures in the Qing dynasty.