Biography

I am from Hefei City, a medium-sized city in the Yangtze River Delta Plain in the People's Republic of China. I went to Haverford College in the United States for my undergraduate studies, and was a double major in history and chemistry. In Cambridge I am working on the cultural history of late imperial China, focusing on the interpretation of a particular literary genre, biji (notebook, or collection of miscellaneous articles), written in the Qing dynasty and early Republican China. After graduating from Cambridge I pursued a law degree at Stanford. I then returned to China to founded a history journal called the Oriental Historical Review (OHR). Currently I am the executive editor of the journal based in Beijiing.