She has an abiding interest in gender and media representations. Her works include 'Pink drama: Reconciling consumer identity and Confucian womanhood,' in Drama in China: Unfolding Narratives of Tradition, Political Transformation and Cosmopolitan Identity (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007) and 'Consuming Sex and the City among university females in Taiwan,' in Media and Consumption in Asia (New York: Routledge, 2008). She has also co-edited, Women's Studies (with Ying Zu and Jieyu Liu, Beijing: The People's University, 2011).