• Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and art
• European-Chinese comparative literature
• Modern Chinese aesthetic theory
• Hong Kong literature and art

2021  Grant for Self-organized Lecture Series 22-23 “Other Epistemologies: Remapping the Literary Field in the Sinosphere” from the PhF Graduate School, University of Zurich

2020  GRC-Grant (UZH) for the Workshop “Wired China: Digital Media and Online Culture”

2020  Grant for the Self-organized Workshop “Wired China: Digital Media and Online Culture” from University Research Priority Program(URPP) Asia and Europe, University of Zurich

Mar 2018 – Feb 2022  SNF Doc.CH in the humanities and social sciences (HSS)

Jul 2016 – Dec 2016  Grant by the Dr. Joséphine de Karman foundation for talented students of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern

Sep 2003  Full Scholarship from Hong Kong Jockey Club, Lingnan University

Jan 2003  Dean’s List Award of Lingnan University

Sep 2002  Full Scholarship from Hong Kong Jockey Club, Lingnan University

Jan 2002  Dean’s List Award of Lingnan University

Sep 2001  Full Scholarship from Hong Kong Jockey Club, Lingnan University

04.10.2018: “Bildung, Utopia, and Multi-temporality in Ge Fei’s Peach Blossom Beauty”. International Workshop: Residual Futures: Rethinking Utopianism in Modern China, Zurich and Castasegna, 03.–06.10.2018.

10.11.2018: “Coming of Age at the Margin of the Revolutionary History: Bildung of the Heart in Landscapes Moving into Dreams”. International PhD Workshop: Chinese History after 1949, Vienna, 09.–10.11.2018.

06.05.2019: “Time and Bildung in The Story of the Stone”. Bi-annual research day for doctoral students: Asia & Europe, Zurich, 06.05.2019.

18.07.2019: “Temporal Utopia at the Margin of History: Multi-temporality in Ge Fei’s Peach Blossom Beauty (Renmian Taohua????)”. ICAS 11 (Eleventh International Convention of Asia Scholars), Leiden, 15.–19.07.2019.

26.01.2020: “Temporal Utopia at the Margin of History: Multi-temporality in Ge Fei’s Peach Blossom Beauty”. UZH-GEAS Joint Dissertation Workshop (Interdisciplinary PhD Program Asia and Europe, jointly organized by the University of Zurich and GEAS), Freie Universität Berlin, 26.–27. 01.2020.

27.11.2020: “Reimagining Tianxia in the Digital Fictional Space”. International workshop “Wired China: Digital Media and Online Culture”, Online, 27.-28.11.2020.

23.04.2021: “Speaking Objects and Sentient Worlds: Reading Leung Ping-kwan’s Thing-poems in the Global-Local Context”. 2020 Annual Meeting of the Swiss Association of Comparative Literature “Literary Glocalization”, Online, 19.-20.11.2020 & 23.04.2021.

01.06.2021: “Speaking Objects and Sentient Worlds: Reading Leung Ping-kwan’s Thing-poems in the Global-Local Context”. 9. Schweizerische Nachwuchstagung der Asien- und Orientwissenschaften, Online, 31.05.-01.06.2021.

Organized Conferences and Workshops

27.-28.11.2020. Online International workshop Wired China: Digital Media and Online Culture. (Co-organized with colleagues from the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Zurich.) 

22-23 Online Lecture Series Other Epistemologies: Remapping the Literary Field in the Sinosphere. (Co-organized with colleagues from the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Zurich.)