Editorial Service
- Founder and general Editor, Columbia University Book Series, How to Read Chinese Literature.
- Co-founder and editor-in-chief, Brill Book Series, Chinese Texts in the World.
- Co-founding Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (JCLC), a semi-annual journal co-sponsored by International Academy for China Studies, Peking University and the Forum on Chinese Poetic Culture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and published by Duke University Press (the inaugural issue scheduled for 2014).
- Founding editor-in-chief, PRISM: Theory and Modern Chinese Literture, a semi-annual co-sponsored by Lingnan University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and published by Duke University Press. Launched in the spring of 2019.
- Editor-in-Chief, The Lingnan Journal 嶺南學報, sponsored by Lingnan University of Hong Kong (the inaugural issue of the new series scheduled for 2014)
- Editorial Board Member, Twenty-First-Century North American Chinese Literary Studies Book Series, co-sponsored by Beijing Normal University and the University of Oklahoma
- Editorial Board Member (2010-2012), Frontiers of Literary Scholarship in China
- Advisory Board Member, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews (CLEAR)
- Advisory Board Member, Dissertation Review
Conference Hosting
- 2023 Co-hosting, with the Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkely, the International Symposium “Hearing Things: Non-Human Voices in Chinese Literary and Visual Culture, April
- 2021 Co-hosting the Symposium “Critical Theory and Premodern Chinese Literature.” July.
- 2021 Co-hosting Prism Symposium, No. 5 “Chinese Learning Goes West: Reception of Traditional Chinese Thought in Modern Europe, North America, and Beyond.” July.
- 2021 Co-hosting Prism Symposium, No. 4 “A Crisis, Or a New Direction: Reconsidering the Translation of Chinese Philosophy.” May.
- 2021 Co-hosting Prism Symposium, No. 3 “Translation, Travel, and Transmission: The Reception of Chinese Masterworks in the West.” April.
- 2019 Co-hosting the Symposium “Encountering, Imagining, and Reinventing Chinse Literature and Culture: Western Writers’ China Engagements.” at Peking University. August
- 2019 Hosting the international conference “Western Literary Theory and Chinese Literature,” Lingnan University of Hong Kong, May
- 2019 Hosting the international conference (in Chinese) “The Lyrical and Narrative Traditions in Chinese Literary and History Writings,” Lingnan University of Hong Kong, May
- 2016 Hosted the International Conference “Border Crossing in Traditional and Modern Chinese Literature: Stories Retold and Theories Reconstructed,” Lingnan University, September.
- 2015 Co-hosted the International Conference “Ming-Qing Literature and Literary Criticism,” Lingnan University, March
- 2014 The International Conference on Confucian Classics and Chinese Poetic Art, Lingnan University, March.
- 2012 The International Conference for the Re-launch of Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies, Lingnan University, November
- 2012 Organized “Stories of Chinese Poetic Culture: Early Times through the Tang,” UIUC campus, October 19-23. A volume bearing the same title is being edited for publication as a college course text.
- 2010 Co-organized the Illinois/Indiana Summer Graduate Seminar: “The Art of Interpreting Chinese Literature, UIUC campus, May 17-18
- 2004 Organized the international conference: “Reading Chinese Poetry: Critical Approaches, Interpretive Methods, and Teaching Strategies, UIUC campus, Nov. 11-13. The end product, How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, was published by Columbia University Press in 2008.
- 2002 Organized the symposium “Violence in Chinese Literature and History: Records, Memory, and Imagination,” UIUC campus, April 26-27
- 2000 Organized the international conference: “Chinese Aesthetics: The Ordering of Word, Image, and the World in the Six Dynasties,” Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois, Nov. 2-6. The end product bearing the same title was published by University of Hawaii Press in 2004.
- 1997 Organized the international conference "The Idea of Literary Culture: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Literary Mind and Carving of Dragons," Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois, Nov. 2-6. The end product, A Chinese Literary Mind: Culture, Creativity, and Rhetoric in Wenxin Diaolong, was published by Stanford University Press in 2001.