Recent Articles

  1. "The Ghost of Arthur H. Smith in the Mirror of Cultural Translation," Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 20 (2013): 406–414.
  2. Chapter 56 "Henry Wheaton" in Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law, eds., Bardo Fassbender and Anne Peters with Simone Peter and Daniel Hogger. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp.1132-1136.
  3. "Translingual Folklore and Folklorics in China," in Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem, eds., A Companion to Folklore, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012, pp.190-210.
  4. "Fragrant Mourning: Thoughts on Xu Bing's Tobacco Project," in Xu Bing: Tobacco Project, Duke/Shanghai/Virginia, 1999-2011, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, pp.31-37.
  5. "The Pictorial Uncanny," in Neal Curtis, ed., The Pictorial Turn, London and New York: Routledge2010, pp.112-133.
  6. "The Cybernetic Unconscious: Lacan, Poe, and French Theory," Critical Inquiry, volume 36 number 2, Winter 2010, pp. 288-320.
  7. "Writing," a contribution to W.J.T. Mitchell and Mark Hansen, eds., Critical Terms for Media Studies, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010, pp. 310-326.
  8. "Injury: Incriminating Words and Imperial Power," in Carol Gluck and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, eds., Words in Motion: Toward A Global Lexicon, Duke University Press, 2009, pp. 199-208.
  9. "The Thug, the Barbarian, and the Work of Injury in Imperial Warfare," PMLA, volume 124, Number 5, October 2009, pp. 1859-1863.
  10. "The Non-Book, or the Play of the Sign," in Katherine Spears, ed. Tianshu: Passages in the Making of a Book, London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 2009, pp.65-79.
  11. "The Pictorial Uncanny," Culture, Theory and Critique, Volume 50 Issue 2 & 3, December 2009, pp. 209-230.
  12. "Life as Form: How Biomimesis Encountered Buddhism in Lu Xun," Journal of Asian Studies, February 2009, pp. 21-54.
  13. "Post-phonetic Writing and New Media," Writing Technologies (online journal) no.1 (Spring 2007) Read Online »
  14. "iSpace: Printed English After Joyce, Shannon, and Derrida," Critical Inquiry 32 (Spring 2006): 516-550.