_{About me}

_{I am Associate Professor (Presidential Early Career Scholar) in the Department of Chinese at Lingnan University of Hong Kong. My research interests include sea and literature in premodern China, material culture and women’s writings in early modern Chinese literature, the global middle ages and Chinese literature, ethnicity and race in medieval and early modern Chinese literature and history, and premodern comparative literature. I received my PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. My first book Writing Pirates: Oceans and Fiction in Late Ming China was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2021. My second book Early Globalism and Chinese Literature is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2025. My peer review journal articles appear on positions: asia critique, CLEAR, Nan Nu, Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, Journal of the Siam Society, Ming Studies, among others. Along the way, I have received many grants and awards for my projects, including SSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research: Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections (USA), Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation For International Scholarly Exchange (USA), The James P. Geiss and Margaret Y Hsu Foundation Publication Subvention Award (USA), Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace (Middlebury College, USA), and most recently, Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (Hong Kong). I am currently working on two monographs, one on the seas in Qing dynasty literature and art and one on the hairpin in late imperial Chinese literature.}