RESEARCH
Manuscripts
In progress. Conceiving Public Libraries in China, 1900s – 1920s.
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
March 2026. Panelist, “GLAM-ing It Up: Exploring Narratives of Asia through Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums,” AAS 2026, Vancouver, BC.
April 2024. “Leafing through the Past.” The 18th Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Presenter.
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.