Biography

I grew up in Xuzhou, a melting pot of cultures in eastern China with an industrial past. Whilst studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge, I was confronted with some of the ways science and medicine have been and continue to be entangled in structures of oppression. I realised that, to build a sustainable and just future through evidence-informed policies, science must confront its colonial legacies. My PhD aims to radically reorientate received accounts of scientific inquiry in the early modern Pacific. Building upon my interest and experience in disentangling cross-cultural production and interpretation of visual and material culture, I use maps to show that early modern Europeans did not have a monopoly on geographical representation, intellectual exchange, or entrepreneurial mobility. This project is part of my development of a methodology that allows the recovery of non-European agency and heterogeneity otherwise occluded by imperial rhetoric in textual archives. Beside my academic work, I am also interested in equity and justice work for gender equality and indigenous rights. I am grateful to join the Gates Cambridge programme and its international and interdisciplinary scholarly community.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Hist. & Phil. of Sci. & Med. 2023
University of Cambridge Natural Sciences 2022