I am a cultural historian of twentieth-century China and Taiwan, focusing on linguistic politics and material culture during Japanese colonial rule and in its aftermath. I am currently completing a monograph that examines how written language and print media shaped everyday experiences of linguistic standardization and state power in Taiwan during Japanese rule and into the Cold War. I was previously a Laming Junior Research Fellow in Living Foreign Languages at Queen’s College, Oxford, and have held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Manchester and National Central Library, Taiwan. I received my PhD from the University of Oxford in 2022, and my thesis titled "Translating Kōminka: Shaping Narratives of Japanese Rule in Taiwan Post-1975" won the British Association for Chinese Studies Best Doctoral Thesis Prize in 2023. My work has appeared, or is forthcoming in, International Journal of Taiwan Studies, Comparative Critical Studies and Journal of Asian Studies.
Publications
"This is What We Must Transform First: Translation and Transition in Taiwan (1945–1947).” Journal of Asian Studies (Forthcoming)
“Growing Together: Yang Shuangzi’s Queer Adaptation of Taiwan’s Colonial Fiction.” Comparative Critical Studies 20 (2024): 60–79.
“Mother of the Nation: A Short Translation History of Yang Qianhe’s 'Flower Blooming Season.'” International Journal of Taiwan Studies 6, no.1 (2023): 82–108.
“Neither Fact nor Fiction: Endnotes, Mythorealism and Reading 'Inner Truth' In Yan Lianke’s Lenin’s Kisses.” Concentric 47, no. 2 (2021): 123–147.
