Staff profile

I am a PhD candidate at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. My research examines how a group of aesthetically transgressive crime dramas mobilise the trope of masculinity crisis to negotiate the increasingly conflicted postsocialist condition in recent China. I have a special interest in how crime dramas set in Northeast China (Dongbei) offer alternative ways of understanding the entanglement of gender, genre, and socialist legacies in post-reform China.

Supported by the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies (CCCS), I coordinate the student-led research blog @Oddchinaout, a bilingual platform aiming to facilitate intellectual exchange among PGR/ECR researchers in Chinese Studies and bridge scholarly work with a broader audience. I have also engaged in the translation of feminist non-fiction writing from English and Chinese. My translations have appeared with established publishers and reached a wide public readership.

Research Interest

• Contemporary masculinities
• TV crime dramas
• Postsocialism
• Northeast China

Teaching and Recognition

• Language Teacher, Centre for Foreign Language Study, 2024-present
• Foundation Fellow, Durham Centre for Academic Development, 2023-2025
• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)

Selected Published Translations

• 依然疯狂: 女性作家与女性主义想象 (Orig. Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, published by Hu'nan Arts Press.
• 男性的衰落 (Orig. The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry), published by Hu'nan Arts Press.