Hello
China is all over the news at the moment, with pundits and politicians across the social and political spectrum giving their views about what's going on. Meanwhile, academics like me get criticised (sometimes rightly!) for spending all our time talking to other academics but staying out of public discussions. This is what prompted me to set up this website. Here, I will post short videos on current issues or historical background related to China. I'll also introduce the work of some of my colleagues. This website is for anyone who doesn't spend all of their time thinking and reading about China, but who is generally curious and would like to know more. I hope you'll find it thought provoking.
About me
I am a lecturer in China and Global Affairs at the Lau China Institute, King's College London. I research China’s agrarian question (how rural land is organised, who controls it and who gets to profit from it). I teach postgraduate courses on China and Globalisation, and China and Global Governance.
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I taught English for a year at a Middle School in Guangdong Province in southern China when I was 18
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I have an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Politics from Bristol and a Masters in International Politics from Aberystwyth
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I studied Mandarin at Beijing Normal University between 2002 and 2004
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I have a PhD from the East Asian Studies Department of New York University
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While a PhD student, I studied Mandarin on the Inter-University Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing and conducted fieldwork based at Beijing Normal University
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I held a postdoctoral position at the China Centre at Oxford University in 2012
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I was a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University from 2013 to 2016
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I was a visiting scholar at the Department of Government at the London School of Economics from 2016 to 2018
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I began teaching at King's College London in 2018