Assistant Professor, Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University, 2021–
University Assistant (Postdoc), Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, 2018–21
Ph.D. in Government and Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011–17
Visiting Fellow, Harvard–Yenching Institute, 2016–17
Visiting Scholar, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 2014–15 fall semester
Bachelor of Public Administration, Nanjing University, 2007–11
Journal Publications
2020, China’s Blood-Borne HIV Catastrophe Revisited, Modern China, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 372–99, copy at https://bit.ly/2k8xL6k.
2018, When Voluntary Donations Meet the State Monopoly: Understanding Blood Shortages in China, China Quarterly, Vol. 236, pp. 1111–30, copy at https://bit.ly/2kaMEVM.
2012, The Differential between Trust in Multiple Levels of Government and Its Explanation: Evidence from a Survey of University Students [Zhengzhi xinren de cengji chayi jiqi jieshi: yixiang jiyu daxuesheng qunti de yanjiu], Public Administration Review [Gonggong xingzheng pinglun], Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 67–99.
2011, The Promotion Tournament Model and Its Optimization [Difang guanyuan jingzheng de zhengzhi jinbiaosai moxing jiqi youhua] (with Yonggang Li), Journal of Jiangsu Administration Institute [Jiangsu xingzheng xueyuan xuebao], No. 2, pp. 73–78.
Other Writings
2020, Reflections on my Ph.D. journey: How I Become a Doctor of Blood [in Chinese], copy at https://bit.ly/2KEj4VG.
2019, Chinese translation: Speaking to Theory and Speaking to the China Field (by Kevin J. O’Brien), China Studies [Zhongguo yanjiu], No. 2, pp. 216–23.
2017, Chinese translation: Political Science: Witchcraft or Craftsmanship? Standards for Good Research (by Asbjørn S. Nørgaard), Foreign Theoretical Trends [Guowai lilun dongtai], No. 1, pp. 8–23.
2017, Book review: Documenting the Reproductive Revolution in China, 1978–1991 (by Jian Chen), copy at https://bit.ly/2kf9RGu.
2017, Book review: To Be a Soldier: How Peasants in the North China Base Area Went to the Battlefield (by Xiaolin Qi), copy at https://bit.ly/2ktkW72.
Awards, Grants, and Scholarships
AUFF Starting Grant, Aarhus University Research Foundation, 2022–25
Harvard–Yenching Fellowship, Harvard–Yenching Institute, 2016–17
Postgraduate Studentship, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011–15
Global Scholarship for Research Excellence, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014
First Prize of Undergraduate Thesis Award, Jiangsu Provincial Education Department, 2012
First Prize of Renmin Scholarship, Nanjing University, 2008, 2010
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China, 2009
Skills
Language: Chinese (native), Danish (intermediate), English (advanced), German (intermediate)