About

My fields of interest include (Chinese) literature and culture, language, language acquisition, and translation. My research specialization lies in contemporary Chinese poetry. I like to think of my research as three-dimensional: text (poems), context (socio-political surroundings) and metatext (discourse on poetry). Building on extensive fieldwork, it combines textual, historical, and sociological analysis to address questions for which beauty is not a way out, but a way in, and whose scope extends beyond poetry to other areas of culture.