The history of script reforms in modern China and this history's relation to the emergence of modern Chinese literature and literary criticism Language rights within and outside China in today’s world.
PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University MPhil in Sociology from Cambridge University BA in English from the University of Hong Kong
Urban and rural imaginations in Chinese literary discourses Youth culture and gender politics in modern and contemporary China Print media and technological changes, Socialist culture as well as world literature. History and Culture of the Chinese Scripts Film and Popular Cultures (mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora) Sinophone Literature; Modern and Contemporary Chinese...
East Asian Studies (in particular, Chinese language and culture) Film and media studies, Visual culture, Digital culture Documentary, animation, and other hybrid digital video practices in contemporary China
B.A. Honours in Chinese Language and Literature, Venice University Diploma in Film Theory and Practice, Beijing Film Academy Diploma in Film Theory and Practice, Beijing Film Academy MA in East Asian Studies, Indiana University PhD in Chinese, Indiana University
Chinese cinemas (Hong Kong, PRC, Taiwan, and the Chinese diasporas) Chinese documentary Chinese animation Chinese digital cultures Animation, Handmade cinema Documentary, docuanimation Screen cultures and soft power Small-screen cinema (digital movie-making practices, DYI movies, microcinema)
Anthropology of China Chinese Diaspora Globalisation Religion (Chinese Christianity) Gender Migration
PhD in Anthropology from Australian National University Masters degree in East Asian Studies
Previously worked in Shanghai as a consultant for a research firm where I applied my research skills in the design of market solutions for multinational companies
The socio-cultural dimensions of Chinese society and the Chinese diaspora
Chinese history and literature Historiography Imperial cultures Chinese diaspora
1984: BA (University of Canterbury) 1986: MA (University of Canterbury) 1996: PhD (ANU)
HIST 123 Revolutions HIST 204 China: Oracle Bones to Revolution HIST 223 Empires and Globalisation HIST 241 War and the Modern World HIST 304 China in Revolution HUMS 301/401 Internship Practicum