Curriculum Vitae
Education
2008 - 2013
PhD. in Social Anthropology, Anthropology Department, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, London, UK
Thesis Title: The State Through Its Mirrors: An Anthropological Study of a ‘Respect-the-Elderly Home’ in Rural China at the Turn of the 21st Century
Result: Pass without any corrections
2006 - 2007
MSc. in Anthropology and Development, Anthropology Department, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, London, UK
2005 - 2006
MA. Social Development and Sustainable Livelihood (course study), University of Reading, Reading, UK
Professional Experience
2010 – 2013
Lecturing the course ‘social anthropology’ to the 3rd year undergraduates at the Sociology Department, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
2005 - 2007
Conducting short term consultancies for the Department for International Development (DFID, UK), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ, Germany), Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID, Australia), World Bank (WB), Asia Development Bank (ADB) and the Ministry of Water Resources (MWR, China), covering the topics of China-Africa comparative poverty analysis, poverty alleviation, development project planning, monitoring and evaluation, social security, gender, environment and civil society
Selected Presentations
Jan 2014
Title: ‘On Spatial Imagination’, at the College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
May 2013
Title: ‘Making it Sparkle: A Structural Analysis of ‘Respect-the-Elderly’ Home in Rural China’, at the Sociology Department, Beijing University, Beijing, China
Jun 2011
Title: ‘Rural Elderly in China as both Margin and Centre’, at the Anthropology Department, LSE, London, UK
Mar 2011
Title: ‘Gender and the State: A Post-Modern Perspective’, at the School of Political Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
Jun 2010
Title: ‘Why the Chinese People Work So Hard? A Cultural Perspective’, at the World Bank, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Language
Chinese (native); English (fluent); German, French, Japanese and Swahili (basic)