Bio

I am a scholar, lecturer, and independent performing arts producer working across music, dance theatre, sound art, and cultural industries. My work brings together academic research and professional practice, with a particular interest in how cultural production operates across different institutional, political, and international contexts.

I studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing before moving to the United Kingdom, where I completed a PhD in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. My research explores the intersections of music, politics, cultural industries, and social transformation, with particular interests in contemporary China, post-socialist cultural contexts, platformisation, sound art, and transnational cultural exchange.

I have taught music industry, cultural studies, and related subjects at institutions including the University of Liverpool, Heidelberg University, and Point Blank Music School, and I am currently an Honorary Research Fellow in Music at the University of Liverpool. I also serve as Development Editor for the Journal of Sound and Music in Games, working with an international community of scholars and practitioners.

My monograph, Western Classical Music in Twenty-First Century China: A Dialectical Crescendo (Routledge, 2025), examines the development of Western classical music in contemporary China through the interconnected histories of cultural policy, markets, institutions, audiences, and cultural identity. I am also co-editing Western Classical Music Culture and Industry in Asia: Borderlands, Displacement, and Cultural Transformation. My wider research includes popular and underground music cultures, particularly punk and DIY practices, as well as sound art, digital platforms, and cultural production in East Asia.

Alongside academia, I have worked extensively across the international music and performing arts industries as a producer, promoter, tour manager, artist advisor, and consultant. My professional experience spans live music, artist management, recording, music publishing, touring, and cross-cultural project development. I have collaborated with organisations and agencies including IMG Artists, Kajimoto Music, HarrisonParrott, Chinabot, Jazzy Sport, and Vialma, and have produced and managed concerts and touring projects across China, the UK, and Europe.

One of my long-term interests is creating connections between artists and cultural organisations across different regions. In 2018, I produced and managed a ten-city China tour for the MJC Trio, led by Latin Grammy-nominated bandoneonist Pablo Jaurena, organising more than twenty performances. In recent years, my practice has increasingly expanded into contemporary performance and interdisciplinary arts. I served as music advisor to London-based artist Chris Zhongtian Yuan and jazz musician Kevin G. Davy for the film All Trace Is Gone, No Clamour for a Kiss (2022), presented at V.O Curations, and have worked as dramaturg on choreographer Wang Jing’s VR theatre project The End of Time.

In 2026, I worked as the UK-side producer for Yuerge Dance Theatre’s Strange Tales from Liaozhai at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, developing the project’s UK production, venue, industry, press, and international touring strategy. This work reflects my growing engagement with contemporary dance theatre and performing arts production, particularly projects that connect Chinese artistic practices with international audiences and institutions.

Across my academic and professional work, I am interested in the infrastructures that allow cultural ideas to travel: between artists and audiences, research and practice, China and the wider world. I am always open to collaborations in music and cultural industry research, performing arts production, international touring, artistic development, and interdisciplinary cultural projects.