His research focuses on the history of East Asia in the twentieth century, particularly in the evolution of cultural communities in colonial, post-colonial and post-imperial societies in China and Taiwan in the interwar period. He has written peer-reviewed articles on youth baseball in colonial Taiwan and American Catholic missionaries living in rural China during the Republican period (1911-1949), and is currently completing his first book, tentatively titled Baseball on the Edge of Empire: A Sporting Community Across the East China Sea, 1895-1968.