Academic Staff

Qualifications

• B.A., University of Hong Kong
• M.Phil., University of Hong Kong
• D.Phil., University of Oxford, UK
   

Research Interests

• Animal Studies 
• Medical Humanities (childism)  
• Global China
• World Literature and Culture
• Comparative Literature
• The Modern Intellectual
   

Selected Publications

Books

• Animal Lives Through Five Centuries of Art and Science: Who Knows I Am Not Subject to Knowledge? New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026. 

• Hu Feng: A Marxist Intellectual in a Communist State, 1930–1955. New York: SUNY Press, 2020. 

Articles/ Chapters

• “The Afterlives of Jataka Deer's Compassion: In Memory of Our Dog Baibai,” AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 25 (September 2025).

• “Toward a New Humanity: Animal Cruelty in China in Light of COVID-19.” In Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies, ed. Laura Wright. London and New York: Routledge, 2021, 381–393.

• “Against Allegory: for the Wolves in Wolf Totem.” boundary 2 47.4 (November 2020): 25–68.