Personal profile

Research interests

  • Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature
  • Literary Criticism
  • Taiwan Literature
  • Modern Chinese Intellectual History

Qualifications

BA [ZJU], MA [NJU], PhD [HKU]

Appointments

Research Grants

PI, "Chinese Anthropocene Science Fiction as a Contact Zone", FDS, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Jan 2025- June 2026.

PI, "Pseudo-Documentary and Speculative History in Science Fiction: Subversion or Witnessing of Factuality?", R&D, HKMU, Jan 2025- Dec 2025.

Co-I: “文學計算批評路徑研究”, 國家社科基金項目·一般項目,2024-2026.

Co-I: 基於史料發掘的南來文人佚作輯錄與年表編撰“, 國家社科基金項目·重大項目,2024-2026.。 

Co-PI,"Chinese Mythology in the Digital Age", Sin Wai Kin Foundation, Jan 2023-Dec 2025.

PI, “Critical Reflections on Anthropocene in Chinese Science Fiction”, 12/2021 – 11/2022, Pilot Work, HKMU.

PI, “Ecological Narratives in Chinese Science Fiction: A Study on Liu Cixin” ,12/4/2021 -30/11/2021, OUHK R&D Funding.

Co-I, “Humanism and Post-humanism in post-1990s’s Chinese Science Fiction”, Research Development Fund (RDF) , Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 1 Feb 2020-1 Feb 2023.

PI, “Fevers of National Learning in 20th century China: Post-enlightenment Phenomena”,FDS, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong 1 Jan 2018-30 June 2020.

PI, “Anti-utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary Chinese ScienceFiction”,PACRD, The Open University of Hong Kong, 1 Jan-31 Dec 2018.

Award 

“Jamie Bishop Memorial Award 2021" Finalist, "From Anthropocene to Chthulucene? An Interpretation of Liu Cixin’s  Pan-species Communism"

     

Memberships

Editorial Board: Newsletter for Science Fiction Studies [科幻研究通訊]

Book Reviewer: Springer Nature

Reviewer of the Chinese Nebula Awards 2024

Reviewer of DiGRA 2024

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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