* The Book of Sappho (2009)
* Talking Bones: Essays (2018)
* Ghost Songs: Opera and Chinese Literature in the Age of Revolution (2022)
Fiction
* "Wong Ho Goes to Washington, DC" (2016)
* "The Man Who Would Be Empress" (2019)
Translations
* _Book of Songs: 300 Tang Poems_ (2019)
Articles & Reviews
* "From the Yellow Peril to China Chic" (2005)
* "Chinatown Noir: Transnational Mobsters and the Politics of Representation" (2007)
* "Singing Her Song: Female Vocalists and the Construction of Chinese Identity in Opera and Film" (2009)
* "The Poetics of the Tang" (2010)
* "The Politics of Modern Chinese Literature" (2013)
* "The New Sinophobia" (2016)
* "The Death of the Chinese Restaurant" (2018)
* "The Chinese Exclusion Act and the Rise of Asian America" (2019)