I am a historian of mass communication under twentieth-century state socialism, with a particular focus on the People’s Republic of China. My research is driven by a desire to understand how power holders utilized new media and technologies of mass outreach, and how people responded to and reclaimed these in the process.
At the present, I work as a postdoctoral researcher at Heidelberg University, where I explore these themes on the case of lianhuanhua (Chinese socialist comics) as part of ERC-ChinaComx. I am also preparing my first monograph on the phenomenon of political study and other collective reading practices in socialist China.
You can find details about my past and current work in Bio, and a list of my publications in Texts. My public lectures are listed in Talks; here you can also see where and when I will talk next. Samples of my graphic design and digital humanities projects are in Portfolio. And get in touch via Contact.