Education:

2020-        Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon

2017-2020 M.A. Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Colorado Boulder

2013-2017 B.A. Chinese Languages and Literature, Sun Yat-sen University

Publications:

Peer-reviewed articles:

(Forthcoming) “The Visibility and Visuality of Children in Modern China: Cuteness, Play, and Outer Spatiality in Children’s Magazines,” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 50.1

(2025) “‘Documenting’ Happiness of Labor for The Great Leap Forward: Children’s Film and the Making of Modern Socialist Childhood,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas,

https://doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2025.2524291

My dissertation investigates the shifting cultural constructions of children’s happiness, tracing its evolution from a bourgeois fantasy in early Republican China to a propagandistic tool in Maoist China. It calls for a transnational turn in children's studies, exploring the influences of both Western and East Asian perspectives on this transformation. My research is supported and recognized by the Oregon Humanities Center Graduate Research Support Fellowship and Oregon Humanities Center Dissertation Fellowship. Additionally, it received the top prize at the Asian Studies Research Event and the Asian Studies Awards at the University of Oregon.