My area of expertise is the history of linguistics and literary translation in the late-Qing and Republican periods, with a special focus on the impact of literary translation on language reform. In particular, my first monograph project explores the intellectual and literary debates surrounding gender equality that rocked the Chinese intellectual and literary scenes after gendered pronouns were introduced into modern vernacular Chinese in the late 1910s. Still firmly rooted in Chinese linguistic history, literature, and gender studies, my next project for the Laming Fellowship will investigate how racialized and gendered linguistic hierarchies were enacted and (re)negotiated in late-Qing and Republican Chinese Literature (ca. 1895-1945) in the wake of the translation of European orientalist literature, and how those processes intersected with the Othering at play in literature portraying South and Southeast Asian peoples, languages, and scripts. Hoping to foster academic networks of solidarities for early career researchers working on gender and China, I am also a co-founder of the China Academic Network on Gender (CHANGE - https://change.hypotheses.org).