Publications and Reviews:

• “From Blockbusters to Video Art: Transnationalism and the Visual Reimagining of Post-Socialist China.” Book review of Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture: Envisioning the Nation by Sheldon Lu (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021).Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images, vol. 5, no. 2.

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Selected Conference Presentations and Workshops:

• “Bodies in Transit: Choreographing Labor Mobility and Border Imagination in Guangzhou.”
  Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Nepal 2025.
• “Reimagine Archipelago: Experiencing and Embodying ‘Relation as a Way of Living.’”
  Presentation and workshop at the International Association for Cultural Studies (IACS) Conference, Thailand 2025.
• “Mou as Cruzo: Dancing at the Crossroads of Migration and Modernity in Guangzhou.”
  Paper presented at Performance Studies international (PSi), Brazil 2025.
• “Maintaining Habits of Assembly: From Existence to Insistence on Subsistence and Sustenance.”
  Paper presented at the “(un)making” Center of Research and Study Conference, New York, 2023.
• “The Future Body in Contemporary Theater.”
  Paper presented at the GENesis Pocket Conference & Festival, New York, 2022.
• “Where Does Theatre Happen? Formal Innovations in Disability Theatre.”
  Workshop presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference, Austin, Texas, 2023.

Grants and Awards:

• NYU GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowships 2025
• Awarded to outstanding doctoral students conducting preliminary dissertation research.
• The award enables students to visit research sites—such as archival resource facilities, laboratories, and fieldwork locations
• NYU GRI Research and Travel Fund
  Awarded by the NYU Global Research Initiative.
  Three-month research grant supporting fieldwork in Shanghai (January–May 2025).
• Corrigan Fellowship
  Awarded by the Performance Studies, NYU.
  PhD fellowship in Performance Studies.
• The Leigh George Odom Memorial Award for Distinguished M.A. Student
  Awarded by the Performance Studies, NYU, June 2020.
  Recognized for outstanding scholarly performance and intellectual contribution to the community.
• Directorial Project Sponsorship, Stückemarkt (Berliner Festspiele)
  Awarded by the Goethe-Institut China in collaboration with the Berliner Festspiele, November 2021.
  Funded the directorial project Midnight Movie.
• GOAT Young Artist Project for Independent Theatre Artist
  June 2023.
  Supported the creation of an original theatre work as director and deviser.

Residencies:

• Zuotan Creative Lab
  • Role: Visiting Scholar
  • Date: August 2024
  • Description: Conducted workshops and engaged in art creation.
• Danceless Complex Selected Artist
  • Duration: 2024–2026
  • Location: Guangzhou,Hongkong,Taiwan,Singapore,Australia
  • Description: Selected for a three-year touring residency across five dance houses on two continents.