Since 2020, I have been pursuing a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies at Cornell University (degree expected in May 26). In 2022, I made Canada my home as a first-generation immigrant.
From 2016 to 2020, I worked at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai and the Shanghai Biennale as Editor, Curator, and Project Coordinator.
I earned dual B.A. degrees in Spanish and Economics, as well as an M.A. in Latin American Literature, from Peking University. My interest in Latin American literature and visual art was particularly consolidated during my visiting year at UNAM (the National Autonomous University of Mexico). During that same period, I also contributed as a cultural columnist to several art media outlets. I wrote feature reports on the Habana Biennial, Mexico City Art Week, Buenos Aires Art Week, and other major art events in Latin America.
My knowledge of contemporary Chinese and East Asian art and literary scenes comes less from formal training alone than from firsthand engagement. Shaped by a multilingual and multicultural formation, I have always been drawn to the frictions, apprehensions, and misapprehensions that emerge in moments of cultural encounter, especially those that unfold in minor keys. I feel lucky to be a polygot.
I was born and raised in Qingdao, a coastal city in northern China. Formerly a German colony in the early twentieth century, my city gave my interest in coloniality one of its earliest points of departure.
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I encountered this portrait drawing at Cuba’s National Museum of Fine Arts, but the wall label was missing. The woman’s gaze touched me. I wondered what her name was and what her stories were like.