My research interests lie in the areas of comparative cultural/literary studies, diasporic literature, literary translation, Taiwanese literature in translation, with specific focus on the issues of translation and power dynamics, memory and colonial legacies. 

I am currently editing my first monograph for publication, Detoured, Deferred and Different: A Dialogue of Literary Practices of Creolisation, and working on the British-Academy funded project "The Voices of Translators: Re-writing Colonial Cultural Memory in Japanophone Taiwanese Literature." 

I have researched topics relating to diasporic Chinese identities, including those of emigrants to Taiwan, and of overseas Chinese who set off on second diasporic journeys to Japan and/or back to China. Recently, I have developed interests in Sinophone Studies, including women’s writing and its translation in the Sinophone world as well as the issues to do with translating literature from the diasporic Chinese, including writers from Malaysia, Singapore and other (South) East Asian countries with Chinese cultural legacies.

My paper which explores the issues of second translation in Weng Nao’s works was shortlisted as an outstanding paper for the 3rd Young Scholar Award from the European Association of Taiwan Studies in 2013. 

Other interests include theatre translation, translating children’s literature and issues of translation technology application in East Asian cultural/linguistic contexts.