Modern Chinese History, History of Science and Technology, Gender Studies, History of Affect

The interaction between oral language and written literature, modern Chinese literature, contemporary Chinese film, Dutch-Chinese interactions from the 17th-century onwards, and the adaptation of China’s great novels

Cultural History, Economic History, Global Labor History, Political History

Buddhist Studies, medieval Chinese Buddhism (especially Chan), but he also dabbles in Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, and methodological issues in the study of religion.

Classical Chinese poetry, Literary Theory and Criticism, Gender and Women's Writing

Traditional China, Chinese Science, Technology and Philosophy, and Historical Theory, Chinese Military History.

Qing China, 1644-1911 Borderland Environmental History

Cultural History of Japanese Colonialism, Eugenics, Bio-art and Contemporary Art, Ideologies of "Blood" in Japan and Israel, and Humanoid Robots and Posthumanism in Japan and Elsewhere

Chinese Religion, Daoism, and the Interaction נetween Daoism, Popular Religious Practices, and Buddhism

History, Early Medieval India, Relgious Study and Tribal Folklore and Early Medieval Indian History, Religious Study, Tribal Folklore