I was born in Xi'an China and grew up in the United Kingdom since the age of seven.

EDUCATION

2016- 2019                             PhD Philosophy (summa cum laude)

                                               The Humboldt University, Berlin and King’s College London          

2015-2016                              PhD Philosophy

                                               The University of York                                                                    

                                               (Moved to Humboldt and KCL with supervisor in 2016)

2014-2015                              MA Philosophy (Distinction)

                                               The University of Hawai'i at Manoa                                  

2012-2014                              PhD Dual Degree, Comparative Literature and Asian Studies          

                                               The Pennsylvania State University                                     

                                               (Discontinued, MA in Comparative Literature conferred) 

2011-2012                              MA English Literature (Merit)

                                               The University of Warwick                                                 

2007-2010                              BA (Hons) Architecture (1st Class)                     

                                               The University of Cambridge

                                               Promoted to MA (2014)

Peer Reviewed Articles:

“Organic Harmony and Ernst Cassirer’s Pluralism” Idealistic Studies. 49 (3) 

“Why the Confucians Had No Concept of Race (Part I): The Anti-Essentialist Cultural Understanding of Self” Philosophy Compass. 2019 

“Why the Confucians Had No Concept of Race (Part II): Cultural Difference, Environment and Achievement” Philosophy Compass. 2019  

"The Symbolic Construction of Reality: The Xici and Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms." Journal of Chinese Humanities. Volume 4, Issue 2, 2019. 

“Freedom and Culture: The Cassirerian and Confucian Account of Symbolic Formation.” Idealistic Studies. Volume 47 (3), 2018. 

“Orientalism and Enlightenment Positivism: A Critique of Anglophone Sinology, Comparative Literature and Philosophy.” The Pluralist. Volume 13, Issue 2, 2018 

“The Ghostly Other: Understanding Racism from Confucian and Enlightenment Models of Subjectivity.” Asian Philosophy. Volume 25, Issue 4, 2015

“The Irretrievability of the Past: Nostalgia in Chinese literature from Tang-Song Poetry to Ming Qing san-wen.” International Communication of Chinese Culture. Volume 2, Issue 3, 2015