“Sexing Chinese Law: Runaway Daughters, Parental Authority, and the Legal Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China,” a public lecture sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, April 11, 2013.

“Wayward Daughters: Sex, Family, and Law in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, January 5, 2013.

“The Imagined War: Rumor-mongering and Political Propaganda during the Resist America Aid Korea Campaign in Early 1950s China,” public lectures sponsored by the Department of History, Capital Normal University, Beijing (December 13, 2012); Department of Political Science, East China Normal University (December 17, 2012).

“Culturing the Korean War: Popular Entertainment, Political Propaganda, and the Making of Revolutionary Citizenship in early 1950s China,” public lectures sponsored by the Institute of Cultural Studies, Capital Normal University, Beijing (December 11, 2012); Department of Chinese Literature, Fudan University, Shanghai (December 18, 2012).

“Wayward Daughters: Sex, Family, and Law in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing,” paper presented at Fall Colloquium Series of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis, November 29, 2012.

“Living on the Social Margin: Marriage, Law, and State in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing,” paper presented at the International Conference on the Centennial Anniversary of the End of Qing Dynasty and the Establishment of the Republic of China,” Renmin University of China, Beijing, June 16, 2012.

“Women at War: The Making of the Home Front during the Resist America Aid Korea Campaign,” Center for American Studies, Fudan University, June 14, 2012.

Panel Chair and Discussant: “China in the 1950s: Revisiting the Formative Years of the People’s Republic,” The Joint International Conference of the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China (HSTCC) and the Center for Chiang Kaishek and Modern Chinese History at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, June 8, 2012.

“The Emotional Cost of War: Women and the Politics of Dependency in Wartime Beijing,” paper presented at the International Conference on “War, Violence, and Their Aftermath: Historical Memory, Literary Imagination, and Cultural Turn,” Washington University in St. Louis, April 6, 2012.

“Customary Nuptials, Serial Marriages, and the Civil Code in Republican China,” paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, Princeton, October 2011.

“Mass Campaigns and Women Workers in 1949 Beijing,” paper presented at the New York Conference of Asian Studies, Buffalo, September 2011.

“Mobilizing Women and Creating Socialist Neighborhood in Beijing, 1949-1952,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Honolulu, April 2011.

“Women, Crime, and Social Networks in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing’s Neighborhood,” paper presented at “Reconsider the City: A Conference on Urban History,” SUNY-Fredonia, April 24, 2010.

“Women in the Neighborhoods: Serial Marriage and the Legality of Rituals in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing,” paper presented at the Left Forum, New York, April 19, 2009.

“Crime and Urban Social Order in Republican China,” paper presented at “Law, Society, and Culture in Asian History Seminar Series,” Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, SUNY-Buffalo, March 17, 2009.

“Transgressing the Boundaries: A Story of a Female Abductor in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing,” paper presented at Asia at Noon, Asian Studies Program, SUNY-Buffalo, April 2008.

“Down the Alleyway: Courtyard Tenements and Women’s Networks in 1940s Beijing,” paper presented at the Traditional China Seminar, Columbia University, New York, March 27, 2008.

“Beijing before the Olympics: Urban History and Politics,” paper presented at the Department of History and the East Asian Program, Pace University, New York, March 27, 2008.

“Bigamy, Wedding Customs, and the Civil Code in Republican Beijing,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, March 2005.

“Individual Livelihood and Family Integrity: Criminalizing Runaway Wives in Republican China,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Seattle, January 2005.

“Recreation, Romance, and Urban Space in 1940’s Beijing,” paper presented at the Comparative and World History Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, 2004.

“Moral Economy and Low-Income Family Structure in Republican Beijing,” paper presented at the Graduate Students Workshop, The Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Johns Hopkins University, 2003.

“‘Looking for a Master’: Runaway Wives in Republican Beijing, 1920-1949,” paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, The George Washington University, Washington D. C. October, 2003.

“Anxiety and Prosperity: The Anti-Christian Campaign and Political Culture in the Late Eighteenth Century China,” paper presented at the Annul Conference of Graduate Students of Asian Studies, Columbia University, New York, February 2001.

“Provincial officials and the anti-Christian campaigns during Qianlong period, 1736-1795,” paper presented at the Young Scholars of Eighteenth-Century Studies seminar at Saarbrucken in Germany in July 1999 and the Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Dublin in Ireland in August 1999.