Chinese popular religion in Penang
Books
Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. SUP website
The Way that Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. SUP website
Book Reprints
Penang: Rites of Belonging in a Malaysian Chinese Community. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2009. NUS Press website
The Way that Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2011. NUS Press website
Translations
Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
Translator: Dr. Hsu Yu-tsuen; translation completed in 2015 with a grant from the Taiwanese government. Translation awaiting formal approval for publication.
Book Chapters and Articles
2010 "On Women and Chinese Festival Foods in Penang, Malaysia and Singapore." In Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore in a special issue on "Women and Chinese Religion" edited by Daniel Overmyer. 168 (2010.6): 179-223. PDF
2009 "'Ascend to Heaven and Stand on a Cloud': Daoist Teachings and Practice at Penang's Taishang Laojun Temple." In The People and the Dao: New Studies of Chinese Religions in Honour of Prof. Daniel L. Overmyer. Edited by Philip Clart and Paul Crowe, pp. 143-184. Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica.
2008"Commodifying Blessings: Celebrating the Double-Yang Festival in Penang, Malaysia and Wudang Mountain, China." In Marketing Gods: Rethinking Religious Commodifications in Asia, edited by Pattana Kitiarsa, pp. 49-67. London: Routledge.
2002 "Chinese Religious Culture in Malaysia: Past and Present," in Ethnic Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia: A Dialog Between Tradition and Modernity, edited by Leo Suryadinata. Singapore: Times Academic Press: 301-322
1998 "Ritual, Language, and Social Memory in a Nineteenth Century Chinese Secret Sworn Brotherhood," in a special issue of Michigan Discussions in Anthropology on "Linguistic Form and Social Action" 13: 103-125.