She completed her PhD in Political Science at Boston University in 2012. She has been a visiting scholar at Peking University, Renmin University, Fudan University and Taiwan Normal University since 2003. She is the author of “Politics of Participation and the Changing State-Society Relations in Reform Era China” in The China Puzzle – The Rise of an Autocracy and Its Implications (ed. M. Hasenkamp), Palgrave, forthcoming (2012), “Groping for Stones To Cross the River: Reflections on Theoretical and Methodological Debates in the China field” in Diogenes, forthcoming (2013), “(Grand)Father of the Nation? Collective Memory of Sun Yat-sen in Contemporary China” in Sun Yat-sen, Nanyang and the 1911 Chinese Revolution, ISEAS Publications, Singapore, 2011 among other publications.