Welcome!

Hello! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Studies at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, starting in Fall 2024. My research focuses on China’s role in global development, with an emphasis on infrastructure and industrialization. I examine how China’s development trajectory, domestic institutions, and structural position in the global economy shape its international development engagements, and how China may be reshaping global development governance. I pay particular attention to the roles of China’s bureaucracy and state-owned enterprises in these global engagements. In my studies of China’s international development impacts, I have conducted fieldwork in Asia and Africa, including in Pakistan, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Nigeria. My research engages with the broader themes of developmental state, state capitalism, and economic statecraft.

I co-edit the People’s Map of Global China and Global China Pulse, initiatives that foster collective efforts to study China’s global presence.

From 2022 to 2024, I was a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Prior to that, from 2021 to 2022, I held concurrent Postdoctoral Fellowships at the China Africa Research Initiative, Johns Hopkins University-School of Advanced International Studies, and at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program.

In a previous career, I worked as a reporter at China’s Caixin Media (2009-2014) and Caijing Magazine (2008-2009), covering economics and international affairs. I served as an overseas correspondent based in London (2009-2013) and in Washington D.C. (2014).