• 香港史
• 帝国晚期与近现代中国史
• 亚洲海洋史
• 边疆 (frontiers) 与边境地界 (borderlands)
• 帝国与殖民主义
• 种族与族群
• 海外华人

专著

• The Opium War in Asia: A Frontier History. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, forthcoming
• “Littoral Borderland: The Opium War and the Chinese Maritime World in Asia” (manuscript in preparation)

期刊文章与书目章节

• “Finding ‘Traitors’ on Multiple Qing Frontiers: Official Narratives of Hanjian from the 1620s to the Opium War.” Late Imperial China 46, no. 2 (2025): 109–143. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/late.2025.a977481.

• “British Colonial Rule over Littoral Space and Watercraft in Hong Kong, 1841–1898.” The Historical Journal 69, no. 1 (2025): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X25100988.

• “The Making of a Littoral Minzu: The Dan in Late Qing–Republican Intellectual Writings.” International Journal of Asian Studies 20 (2023): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479591421000401.

• “Accommodating Foreigners in a Littoral Borderland: The Lower Pearl River Delta during the Opium War.” Modern China 48, no. 1 (2022): 197-228. https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700420946678.

• “Straddling the Handover: Colonialism and Decolonization in British and PRC Hong Kong.” In From a British to a Chinese Colony? Hong Kong before and after the 1997 Handover, 1-49. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2018.

• (With Monica Kin-ian Chang and Eugene Shun-yung Tam)  “Heritage in Translation: ‘A Dagur Story’ as Historical Fiction and Sample Text for Learning Manchu—Part Two 翻译中的遗产: 作为历史小说与满文学习范例的 ‘达斡尔故事,’ (下).” Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies 14 (2016/2017): 45-56. https://doi.org/10.3998/saksaha.13401746.0014.003.

• “Occupied Space, Occupied Time: Food Hawking and the Central Market in Hong Kong’s Victoria City during the Opium War.” Frontiers of History in China 11, no. 3 (2016): 400-430. https://doi.org/10.3868/s020-005-016-0022-8. (Converted from the paper that won the Gastronomy Program Prize of the Food and the City Conference at Boston University in February 24-25, 2012)

• “Monopoly, Transaction and Extortion: Public Market Franchise and Colonial Relations in British Hong Kong, 1844-58.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch 52 (2012): 139-187.

论文集与期刊特刊

• Canadian Journal of History 54, no. 3 (2019), “Transnational Chinese Passages and the Global Making of Frontiers and Borderlands.” https://muse.jhu.edu/article/744635.

• From a British to a Chinese Colony? Hong Kong before and after the 1997 Handover. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2018.

书评与编者的话

• “Guest Editor’s Note.” Canadian Journal of History 54.3 (2019), Transnational Chinese Passages and the Global Making of Frontiers and Borderlands: 277-285. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/744635.

• Review of Unruly People: Crime, Communities, and State in Late Imperial South China by Robert J. Antony. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch 57 (2017): 254-257.