Hi! I am a Ph.D. student in Government at Harvard University. I study the political economy of authoritarianism. My research interests include inequality, distribution and redistribution, and historical political economy. My main research agenda focuses on how inequalities are created, perceived, and dealt with in the transformation into a modern economy in the context of China. You can find my CV here.

My past research centers on two lines. The first studies the coercive capacity of the Chinese state, examining local state responses to labor protest in contemporary China. The second seeks to understand how the Chinese Communist Party reshaped state-society relations and built its institutional infrastructure during regime formation.

I received my B.A. in Sociology from Tsinghua University and A.M. in Regional Studies-East Asia from Harvard University. Before graduate school, I was an active member of China’s English debating community for many years in the capacity of speaker, adjudicator, coach, and organizer.