I received my Ph.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 2007. My first book, entitled Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Strategies in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1952 (under contract with Harvard University Asia Center), uses criminal case files and explores the political and social meanings of lower-class women’s survival strategies in Beijing’s tenement neighborhoods during the tumultuous time of Japanese occupation, civil war, and the Communist revolution from 1937-1952. By putting gender, poverty, and personal experience at the center of my analysis, I seek to understand the making of urban social and moral order in twentieth-century China. Most recently, I have been studying rumormongering in Beijing during the Resist America Aid Korea Movement in the early 1950s.