My scholarly articles span areas as diverse as visual cultural studies, art history, race and ethnicity studies across the Pacific, and literary studies. I am also a creative writer with two creative writing books published in China. Below is a selection of my articles published in different scholarly journals and books:
Teaching
“Visualizing Ethnic Minorities in Multicultural China” published in Teaching Film from the People’s Republic of China, Modern Language Association (MLA), edited by Zhuoyi Wang, Emily Wilcox, and Hongmei Yu, 2024
Chinese Ethnic Minority Literary and Cultural Studies
“Shen Congwen’s Idealized Ethnic: Borderland, Ethnicity, and the Spiritual Enchantments of a Modern Master.” Published in Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, Special Issue on Chinese Literature across the Borderlands, edited by David Der-wei Wang, Kyle Shernuk, and Miya Qiong Xie, 2021.
“Entrepreneurs of the National Past: The Discourse of Ethnic Indigeneity and Indigenous Cultural Writing in China.” Published in positions: asia critique, 2021
Visual Culture and Urban Studies
“Tricking memory, remaking the city: Trompe l’oeil and the visual transformation of a historic city in China: Chengdu.” Published in Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (2019)
“Negotiating Authenticity in China’s Urban Historic Preservations – the Case of the Kuan and Zhai Alleys in Chengdu.” Published in Heritage and Society (2019)
Comparative Literary and Art Historical Studies
“A Comparative Study of the ‘Virtuous Wife’ in Traditional Chinese and Biblical Proverbs.” Published in China-U.S. Journal of Humanities.
“Between Representation and Repression: The Photography of San Francisco’s Old Chinatown and the Visual Politics of Representing the Racial ‘Other.’” Published in Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies, 2019.
For more of my scholarly publications, please visit my Academia.edu page and Google Scholar page.
Creative Writing Books in Chinese
二十岁随想录：旅美学子张彦硕散文集，中国戏剧出版社 2009 (Reflections at the Age of Twenty: Essays by Yanshuo Zhang, a Student in America), China Drama Press, 2009
Yanshuo Zhang 