Tamara concentrates on relationships between visual and literary values in 17th century and 18th century Chinese and Japanese paintings and prints; as well as the international exchange of imagery in the early modern era. She has several articles published on the international circulation of prints in circa 1600 and on printed playing cards. She is particularly interested in issues of comparative print culture, expanding public markets for art, trade, and the treatment of “otherness” in this era. In 2012 she published the book “The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652): Authentic Voices / Expanding Markets” with Ashgate Press. She is currently contributing to and editing a volume of essays by diverse scholars titled “Picturing Commerce: Visual Forms in Motion in and from the Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550-1800.” She is also writing an article on trade in the South and East China Seas for the online “Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History,” due to be published in 2017.