I am a DPhil Student at the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations. I study comparative politics, and my DPhil thesis research focuses on the state formation and state-building processes of the modern Chinese states during the early half of the twentieth century. Aside from my thesis, my research interest also covers contemporary Chinese politics, historical political economy, government-organized non-governmental organisations, as well as the modern history of China and Japan.
Before coming to Oxford, I worked as a research assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, focusing on Environmental NGOs’ policy advocacy in China. I completed my Master’s Degree in International Relations at the University of Chicago with honors; before that, I received my bachelor’s degree in foreign services from Georgetown University, majoring in international politics with a concentration on international law and organizations. I am fluent in Mandarin Chinese, English and Japanese.
DPhil topic
My DPhil research focuses on the state formation and state-building processes of the modern Chinese states during the early half of the twentieth century. I look at a range of important factors, especially local-level government-organised non-governmental organisations and levels of conflict, to study how they contributed to the state-building efforts of different political entities in China at that time, including the Chinese Communist Party, the Kuomintang, and the Japanese Puppet Governments. I analyse these factors through a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods, relying mostly on historical and archival data. Building on this project, I am also interested in how the aforementioned local-level organisations transformed and contributed to the state-building processes in the PRC period.
