I am a historian of modern China as well as a scholarly editor, indexer, translator, and researcher based in Vancouver, Canada. In addition to this professional work, I'm currently developing the Alien China Project, which in its present form is a broad historical exploration of space, aliens and alien life, UFOs, and culture and politics in both premodern and modern Chinese-language contexts. I'm also working on a day-by-day timeline of the history of the Chinese revolution (currently around 100,000 words) and a book project about the history of “terrorism” in British Columbia, Canada.

I received my PhD from the Department of History at the University of British Columbia in 2014. From 2011 to 2014, I taught at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor (Contractually-Limited Term Appointment). In 2018–19 I was an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. You can see my Curriculum Vitae here.

In 2019, I realized that it was more important to me to live in the same city as my children than to pursue a career as a professor and end up living who-knows-where for who-knows-how-long. And then, of course, the pandemic happened. As I continue to research things that interest me, I've worked with other scholars and graduate students since then to make their work as good as it can be and with many of the scholarship-adjacent parts of academic work, like indexing. See the relevant pages on this site for my work in these areas, and please also check out my other projects.

For more information on my availability and rates, see the Contact Me page or email me at [email protected].