EDUCATION

• Department of East Asian Studies, Ph.D, Princeton University

  Major field: Twentieth-century Chinese Literature

  Minor fields: Modern Chinese Urban and Cultural History; Film theory and Chinese Cinema

• Department of Chinese, M.A. , Contemporary Chinese Literature, Peking University

• Department of Chinese, B.A., Chinese Literature, Peking University



FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• 2025 (Feb-May)  Visiting Scholar Fellowship, International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization, Fudan University
• 2022 Spring Term, Humanities and Social Science Faculty Research Fellowship, Office of Deputy President for Research & Technology, National University of Singapore.
• 2018-2019 Princeton University Library Research Grant
• 2017-2018 Harvard Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Fellowship
• 2008-2009 Faculty Excellent Teacher Award, National University of Singapore
• 2006-2007 PIIRS Dissertation Writing Grant, Princeton University
• 2001-2006 Full University Fellowship, Princeton University



RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED

1) Ministry of Education, Academic Research Fund, Tier 2
Topic: Chinese Popular Cultures in Post-War Singapore and Malaya (1945-1965) (PI), Amount: $693,966
Start Date: Feb 2022. Completion: May 2025.

2) The Wan Boo Sow Research Grant, Department of Chinese Studies, NUS
Topic: Chinese Popular Cultures in Post-War Singapore and Malaya (1945-1965)
Start Date: July 2020. Completion: January 2021.

3) The British Academy’s International Partnership and Mobility scheme
Topic: Cultures of the Chinese Cold War in British Southeast Asia, 1949-1963 (Co-applicant)
Start Date: December 2015. Completion: November 2018.

4) HSS Seed Fund, FASS, NUS
Topic: Sinophone Childhoods and the Chinese Cold War in Asia (1940s – 1960s)
Start Date: March 2016. Completion: March 2018.

5) Ministry of Education, Academic Research Fund, Tier 1
Topic: Cultural Dynamics of the Cold War between China and Southeast Asia: Cinema, Radio and Theater (1950s-1970s)
Start Date: Oct 2012. Completion: Sept 2015.

6) Ministry of Education, Academic Research Fund, Tier 1
Topic: International Conference "Producing the Child in Modern Chinese Literature" (2008-2011).

7) FASS, NUS, Start-up Fund
Topic: Original Subject: Producing the Child in Modern China (2007-2010)