He received his PH. D. in Modern History from L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France) in 2003. He maintains an interest in cultural history in a comparative perspective between Europe and China in the modern age, especially in regards to material culture and the question of taste. He is currently working on the opium consumption of these two cultures in the 19th-20th century. He also continues to research the historical theories of event thinking, which include the ways narratives of events are constructed and the socio- political uses of those narratives. Research supervision is open for Chinese or French speakers only.