APPOINTMENTS
HKU-100 Scholar, Assistant Professor in the Translation Program, School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), 2021–
Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, HKU, 2019–2021
Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow, National Library Singapore, 2018
EDUCATION
PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, 2019
MA in Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, 2016
BA in Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University in the City of New York (magna cum laude), 2011
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AND GRANTS
Barbro Klein Fellow, Short-term Researcher, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, 2025
Louis Cha Fund for Chinese Studies and East/West Studies, “Chinese Mining in Southeast Asia: Language and Labor Histories,” 2025
HYI-NUS FASS Joint Training Workshop, National University of Singapore, 2024
Brill Fellowship, Scaliger Institute, Leiden University, 2024
Early Career Scheme (ECS), University Grants Committee, for “Visualizing Keywords in Malaysian-Chinese Literary History via Digital Humanities Methods,” 2023–25
Social Science Research Council InterAsia Academy Fellowship, 2021
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Doctoral Fellowship, 2018
Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship, National Library Singapore, 2018
Kei-on Chan Dissertation Prize in Modern Chinese Studies, 2018
China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) Graduate Student Best Paper Prize, Association for Asian Studies, 2017
PUBLICATION
Articles
“Li Zishu’s Hidden Transcripts of Post-1970s Malaysia: Literature and Religion in Land of Floating Customs,” Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing 38:4 (Issue 116) (2023): 71–80.
“Inter-Imperial, Ecological Interpretations of the ‘Five Coolies’ Myth in Penang and Medan,” PRISM: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 19:2 (2022): 319–336.
“The Imaginative Materialism of Wen in Ng Kim Chew’s Malayan Communist Writing,” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) 40 (2018): 163–198.
Book Chapters
“Huang Chong-kai and the Taiwanese Novel of Ideas,” in Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ru Fan (eds.), Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader (Springer, 2023), 189–200.
“Thai, Chinese and Malay Modern: Civilisational and Textual Discourses in Hsu Yun-Tsiao’s 1933 Diaries in Patani,” Chapters on Asia: Selected Papers from the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship (National Library Singapore, 2019), 49–70.
Book Reviews
Cosima Bruno, Lucas Klein, and Chris Song (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation (London: Bloomsbury, 2024), reviewed in Journal of Translation Studies Vol 8:2 (2024), 139–43.
Cheow-Thia Chan, Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023), reviewed in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 55:1 (2024), 187–88.
Caroline Chia and Tom Hoogervorst (eds.), Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2021), reviewed in Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde (BKI), 179:1 (2023), 153–55.
Public Essays and Interviews
“Translator’s Afterword: A Poet’s Wanderlusting Blue,” in Ling Yu’s Daughters (London: Balestier Press), 2025.
“Ling Yu’s Daughters: Translator’s Preface and Three Poems,” Taiwan Lit and the Global Sinosphere 6:1, from “Translator’s Preface” in Ling Yu’s Daughters, 2025.
“Translating Taiwan and Riding the Iron Horse of Fate in Nature: An Interview with Darryl Sterk,” Chinese Literature and Thought Today 54: 1–2 (2023), 78–87.
“Narrating the Emergency from the Other’s Point of View: Between Restitution and Rehabilitation,” Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW), “Restitution” Portfolio, 2023.
Public Essays (in Chinese)
〈詩人零雨的漫遊之藍──江戶時代景觀〉，《印刻文學生活誌》三月號零雨專輯 （2025），96–99.
〈弗朗西斯 · 蓬热和零雨的生命功課──論零雨「隨筆選刊」及「詩十二首」〉，《印刻文學生活誌》三月號零雨專輯 （2025），92–95.
〈先端中的轉折──文筆另類的張永修〉，張永修 《尋虎》序 （有人出版社, 2023），11–18.
Reference
“Goh Tun-ban: National Autonomy” (1919) (forthcoming).
“Liu Kefei: Masses and Education” (1920) (forthcoming).
“Wenceslao Q. Vinzons: Malaysia Irredenta” (1932) (forthcoming).
“Sha Qin,” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Chinese Poets since 1949 (Second Volume) (forthcoming).