A while ago, I purchased a Scanmarker. It is a pen-type text scanner. I hoped it would make my life as a researcher easier, if I do not...

I could not update this page over the last 14 months. Many things happened in between. Pandemic. The Ramseyer Scandal. Twitter storm. New...

At Yale on Feb 12, Wednesday:

I'm giving talks on my new project at Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and Yale this coming week: https://ceas.yale.edu/events/emotional-topograp...

I just gave a lecture at Boston College. Thank you Professor Franziska Seraphim for inviting me! I had a great time discussing my book...

Choice Magazine, thanks to the generous review by Professor Ericson, gave me an "Outstanding Academic Title" award to my book,...

I had great fun at the AHA annual meeting! This was my first presentation on the current research, and it made me realize how much we...

I will be attending American Historical Association's annual meeting in New York to give a presentation on Japanese wives in the...

This is the end of the semester at NUS, and after a semester-long experimental journey of teaching a newly designed large lecture course,...

Professor Kevin Blackburn invited me to give a presentation at a conference for secondary-school and junior-college teachers. Presenting...

We just had a week of lecture and tutorials on "women and society" in our history 101 course. We instructors were excited to teach it,...

I have heard from multiple friends that my former advisor has mentioned my name and my argument in her speeches, and I was curious of...

I got a very generous review in Choice Reviews. Thank you Professor Ericson! I am extremely honored to find the expressions...

Life is a journey full of learning opportunities. Kids. With their superior ways of enchanting and torturing us, they help us to arrive...

My nieces and nephews started attending universities. I am teaching many first-year, first-semester students. I am now contemplating what...

Now I started to receive book reviews, it suddenly occurred to me that I wrote a book review for an academic journal back in December...

Professor Emer O'Dwyer wrote a thoughtful review on my book in the Journal of Social History! Humbly take her criticism that I provide...

I recently gave a seminar talk at the NUS East Asian Institute. I based the talk on my book (they uploaded a nice summary of what I...