I’m an adjunct research fellow and translator based at Adelaide University. 

Current research projects span Australia–China cooperation in green energy, ontological insecurity among university students as a result of the climate crisis, and beauty, ugliness and hairstyle in Republican era China. I’m also working on a monograph, based on my PhD thesis, about how elite Chinese political discourse functions as a mechanism of governance that shapes judicial outcomes in divorce cases. 

Research interests include China studies in Australia; Chinese politics and governance; Chinese political discourse; language and power; authoritarianism; politico-linguistics of climate; climate-change communication; ideology and governance; geopolitics; language and gender, CDA; Appraisal.

I’m a NAATI Certified Translator (Chinese–English) with over a decade of teaching experience in Australia and China, spanning language, translation, history, politics, society and culture. 

I'm open to translation work, collaborative research opportunities, media commentary, and advocacy work for the importance of learning foreign language and culture (especially Chinese).