I am a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University specializing in Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy, aesthetics, and decolonial philosophy. Previously, I served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Asia Pacific Studies at the University of San Francisco. I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 

Broadly speaking, my research explores the intersections of traditional Chinese thought, aesthetics, decolonial theory. In the Chinese tradition, my work ranges from classical Daoism and Confucianism to Ming-Qing 明清 aesthetics. My most recent publications center on the philosophical and aesthetic views of the late Qing/early Republican scholar Wang Guowei 王國維. 

As a comparative philosopher, I also have extensive training in Western and contemporary philosophy, with an especially strong background in aesthetics. I am particularly well-acquainted with the aesthetic writings of Nietzsche and Dewey, and have also done a great deal of work on Kant, Schiller and Schopenhauer. In addition, my research explores the overlap of aesthetic and epistemology in analytic aesthetics and decolonial theory.  

My current project concerns the foundational influence of aesthetic values on the development of ethical and epistemic norms. I approach this idea from various perspectives, including aesthetic cognitivism, pragmatism, decolonial theory and classical Confucianism.