Another great article to read with sorrow today😭

Felt depressed after searching funding opportunities for international students to do a PhD in the UK :((

We have today written to UK Research and Innovation to express our anger and disappointment at their capitulation to the demands of Rt Hon Michelle Donelan in relation to the suspension of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) advisory board

Omw back to Cambridge I met a man introducing me the city & told that I’ll meet many people from 🇨🇳cuz it has a Chinese warden who admitted lots of Chinese. I was like can you call that warden to issue me 100 free Cambridge degrees cuz I’m Chinese😅 #racism #conspiracy #china

A great (academic) trip to Lisbon as a guest speaker to talk on 🇨🇳 feminism and its transnational linkages within East Asia, and co-hosted a talk for the faculty & staff on autoethnography & IPT as a collaborator with Dr. Ruairidh Brown, Head of School. So honored & exciting!

Received over 58k views and 3.8k likes within 36 hours on Xiaohongshu (the Red Book) for writing about the desperate unemployment situations after graduation (with an IR degree), shockingly it has became the most popular post that I’ve ever written…

Thrilled to share that I’m running a new podcast on IR with Jasmine🥳welcome and join us! The first episode on ‘entering IR’ will be published tomorrow 🤩

Finally! A very thought-provoking discussion on 'IR as a gendered discipline', 'low-career-expectancy major', 'Beijing taxi drivers vs. IR experts', 'abstract concepts vs. real life' & most excitingly 'Is IR a gold-plated accessory for elites?' Let's overreact!!

Very cool discussions! Relatable when Miss Zhang said ‘identity is like wearing a pair of glasses that you can’t take off’ & James said sometimes we only have an ‘imagined familiarity’ of the home country so we might miss research puzzles that others might be interested in.

First time trying Matters, a decentralized blockchain assisted platform to publish the transcripts😎

Arrived and finally settled in Sydney, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve started my PhD in Government and International Relations at SSPS. I’ll continue my research on social media, emerging tech and IR, focusing on the quantum IR theory and critical security studies💕

My co-authored chapter is now available: lnkd.in/dFMGFGqA. In this autoethnographic chapter, we compared our experiences of international(ised) education in Kurdistan & China, critically reflecting on key issues like postcolonialism, gender & identity in global politics.

tomorrow evening (29th) speaking University of Sydney about 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚’𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐱𝐲 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 a book that ‘offers a totally new perspective on China; all previous commentaries on its rise have been made out of date’ (Jocelyn Chey) all welcome! Oxford University Press

Thank you editors✨New article out on livestreaming politics and 🇰🇷 martial law crisis. With the magic of the smartphone, the theatre of war, public protests, and robust parliamentary exchanges are now all only inches from our face. Read⬇️

Pretty shocked when chatting with the guest talking about the ideal of ‘global village’ does not really exists in the US but have been so popular in China, esp as a Gen Z grew up in the 00-10s…

Migrating to Bluesky:

Proud to bring more attention to the thoughts of Kollontai and Chizuko Ueno, and what’s happening in contemporary Chinese feminism into the Anglophone world! Happy IWD💕Freedom and Love to everyone!

Just wrapped up my first academic conference in Australia, and my first one as a PhD candidate, at #OCIS2025 last Friday! I had the pleasure to present part of my doctoral research on livestreaming and global security in our Quantum IR panel. Very organic academic exchange!