Recent Reviews 2021 Review of Yang Yuan Zheng, Dragon’s Roar: Chinese Literati Musical Instruments in the Freer and Sackler Collections. Hirmer Publishers, 2020. xvii, 240 pp., appendices, chronology, list of tables and figures, glossary of Chinese characters, works cited, index.ISBN 978-3777434773 (hardback). In Yearbook for Traditional Music Vol. 53 (2021): 171-175.
2018. Review of Wing Chung Ng, The Rise of Cantonese Opera. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03911-9. In H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
2017 Review of two disks. “The Flowing Waters: Guqin Music of Liang Mingyue.” Performed by Liang Mingyue. 2007. Lyrichord Discs Inc. LYRCD 7453. “Chine: ‘Le pêcheur et le bûcheron’: Le qin, cithare des lettrés” (China: ‘The Fisherman and the Woodcutter’: The Qin, Zither of the Literati). Performed by Sou Si-tai. 2006. Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire, Musée d’Ethnographie VDE-GALLO 1214. In Ethnomusicology Volume 61 Number 2. 379-388.
2016 Review of 實驗京劇《關公在劇場》(Experimenting Peking Opera: "Super Hero Guan on Stage". In Chinese, 香港[灼見名家]電子報,12月19日
2015 Review of My Way (Qiandan lu 亁旦路): A Documentary Film on Male Performers of Female Roles in Cantonese Opera, by Cheuk Cheung. In CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature Volume 34, Number 2. 182-184.
2015 Review of 《未褪色的金碧輝煌──緬甸古典音樂傳統的再現與現代性》[Unfaded Splendour: Representation and Modernity of the Burmese Classical Music Tradition], by 呂心純 (Lu Hsin-chun, aka Hsin-chun Tasaw Lu). Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2012. In CHIME (Journal of the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research), No. 20, 2015. 150-153.
2013 Review of Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions, edited by Keith Howard. Surrey, England: Ashgate. 2012. The China Quarterly, Vol. 214 (June 2013), 498 – 499. 2010 “Deconstructing Chinese Opera: Tears on Barren Hill on the Contemporary Stage” in Chinoperl Papers (Journal of the Chinese Oral and Pereforming Literature) Volume 28, 1-12.