Her research focuses on the political and social elites, travel culture, miscellaneous writing (biji) and funerary biographies (muzhiming), and women and the family in the Song Dynasty. She is the author of Transformative Journeys: Travel and Culture in Song China (University of Hawaii Press, 2011). Her current research examines changes in the discourses on and practices of filial piety (xiao) in the Northern Song.