Biography

I obtained my doctoral degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of University of London. I taught at School of East Asian Studies (SEAS) of University of Sheffield between February and June 2012. I was the Secretary-General of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) between 2018 and 2025 with another five years between 2012 and 2017 as an EATS Board Member. I am a Research Associate of the Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS. I am also on the Advisory Board of the European Reserch Centre for Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) at the University of Tubingen, Germany, as well as the Editoral Board of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies.  My research has been supported by the Chiang Ching-kou Foundation, China and Inner Asia Council, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, Taiwan Fellowship, the Centre for Chinese Studies of the National Central Library and the North American Taiwanese Professors' Association. I was a Visiting Fellow to the Institute of Taiwan History of Academia Sinica, the National Taiwan Normal University and the National Cheng Kung University for my research on Chiang Kai-shek's war plan to retake China, the political participation of marriage immigrant women in Taiwan and the transformation of the AVRDC World Vegetable Centre in Taiwan. I welcome doctoral research projects focusing on labour migration, marriage migration, informality, irregularity, sovereignty, citizenship and gender-based violence. I am also interested in exloring the legacy of the Cold War and authoritarianism. As the guardian of a rare collection of martial law-era opposition magazines donated by the National Museum of Taiwan History, I also welcome doctoral research using these artefacts for exploring the formation of an 'epismetic community' promoting the concepts of liberal democracy, constitutional order and national identity during Taiwan's martial law era.    

Research interests

My doctoral research is entitled ‘the Becoming of Immigrants from Outsiders to In-Betweens: the National Identity of Immigrant Women in Taiwan’. Taking gender as an approach, my research focuses on migration in East Asia and and the Cold War in East Asia. My current projects include informal migrant farm labour, obstetric violence, the use of women's voirces for psychological warfare, authoritarianism legacy and knowledge production by ways of film screening and photograph exhibition.    

Research Clusters

• Transnational Politics and Society
• Women’s and Gender Study

Discipline Areas

• Development Studies
• Migration Studies
• Political Science
• International Relations
• Gender Studies
• Taiwan Studies