| “The Sino-Japanese War and the Rise of China’s Province-Run Enterprises: A Case Study of the Guizhou Enterprise Corporation, 1939-1949.” To be presented at the Fourth International Convention of Asian Scholars in Shanghai, 20-24, August, 2005. |
| “Cloning the Bureaucratic Octopus: Bureaucratization of Governance Structure of China’s State-owned Enterprise, 1935-1945.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association at Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Jan. 6-9, 2005. |
| “The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change.” Presented at the Historical Society Conference at the Spruce Point Inn near Boothbay Harbor, Maine, June 3-6, 2004. |
| "Building State Structure: Guomindang Institutional Rationalization during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945," Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association at Marriot Wardman Park and Omni Shoreham, Washington D. C., Jan. 8-11, 2004. |
| "Reconstructing the Creation of Danwei Identity in Modern China: The Nationalist Reform of Administrative Bureaucracy and Its Implementation in State-Owned Enterprise, 1937-1945." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association at Chicago Hilton, Jan. 2-5, 2003. |
| “The Sino-Japanese War and the Formation of the State Enterprise System in China: A Case Study of the Dadukou Iron and Steel Works, 1938-1945.” Presented at the Seventh International Conference on Sino-Japanese Relations at Crystal City Hilton, Washington D.C., December 7-9, 2001. |
| “Establishing a System of Accountability: Managerial and Philological Origins of the Unit System in China’s State-Owned Enterprise, 1938-1945.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies at Sheraton Chicago, March 22-25, 2001. |
| “The Evolution of the Nationalist Ideology of Industrialization in Republican China, 1911-1945.” Presented at the Conference of the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China at Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, October 20-21, 2000. |
| “The Sino-Japanese War and the Making of the Administrative Factory in State-Enterprise: A Case Study of the Dadukou Iron and Steel Works, 1938-1945.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies at Town and Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, March 2000. |
| “Regional Archives in the People’s Republic of China: A Case Study of Chongqing Municipal Archives and Yunnan Provincial Archives.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Alabama Archivists at Gulf State Park Resort Hotel, November 1999. |
| “Development of Institutions of Social Service and Industrial Welfare in State Enterprise in China, 1937-1945.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies at Washington Hilton and Towers, Washington D.C., March 1998. |
| “Origins of Work Unit System in China: Emergence of Institutions of Social Service and industrial Welfare, 1926-1936.” Presented at Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, October 1997. |