RESEARCH
Journal Articles
Yi Shan, “Collecting Rare Books in a Public Library: Jiangsu Provincial Guoxue Library in the Nanjing Decade (1927–1937),” East Asian Publishing and Society (Leiden: Brill), No.10 (2), Oct 2020, 125–158. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341342.
Book Review
Xu Jingbo, Shitou ji: Shanghai shiyin shuye yanjiu, 1843–1956 石头记：上海石印书业研究，1843–1956 [Tale of the stone: a study of Shanghai’s lithographic book industry, 1843–1956]. Suzhou: Suzhou University Press, 2014. In East Asian Publishing and Society (Leiden: Brill), 2017 (7)1, 83–87.
Conference Presentations
May 2023. “Meaningful Losses: Exploring the Knowable Past by Collecting Premodern China.” Historical Fragments: Making, Breaking and Remaking. Material Culture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Research Cluster, University of Edinburgh.
Feb 2023. Destroyed, Removed, and Reassembled: Book Collections in the Premodern World. UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Invited presenter.
April 2021. “Inky Faces: Historical Consciousness in the Collecting and Cataloging Rubbings in Eighteenth-Century Qing Empire.” Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley (Online). Reading Material: New Approaches to Textual Media in China from Bamboo Slips to Touchscreen Tablets. Presenter.
March 2021. “Cataloging Rubbings and Assembling Histories: The Publication of Jinshi 金石 Catalogues in the Late Eighteenth-Century Qing Empire.” BHPC Student Colloquium, University of Toronto (Online). Presenter.
September 2020. “Where the Mind Gratifies: Gu Guangqi (1766–1839) and Book Collating in Jiangnan.” AAS-in-Asia. Kobe, Japan (Online). Presenter, panel organizer.
July 2019. “Restoring Books, Reconfiguring Life: Collecting Song Editions in Late Eighteenth-Century China.” Durham Early Modern Studies Conference. University of Durham, United Kingdom. Presenter.
June 2018. “The Dust of the Song Dynasty: Huang Pilie (1763–1825) and His Collection of Song-Edition Books.” AFEC (Association française d’études chinoises) International Workshop: Chinese Objects and Their Lives. Paris, France. Presenter.