Diasporic Objects: The British Lives of Cultural Revolution Objects

My research investigates the multiple ways people in Britain have engaged with Cultural Revolution art and objects, both during the Cultural Revolution and since. It primarily focuses on exhibitions and collections of these objects, questioning how people have used and interacted with these objects, and will seek to map how these interactions have changed over time. It will also ask how these objects can be used in the construction of historical narratives.

I am currently a PhD student at the London Consortium, an interdisciplinary collaboration between Birkbeck College (University of London), Tate Modern, ICA, Architecture Association, and the Science Museum. My research is supervised by Dr Marko Daniel (Tate Modern) and Prof Harriet Evans (University of Westminster).

I also work as a research assistant at the University of Westminster's China Poster Collection, a unique archival resource of over 800 posters and other objects, dating from the 1950s-1980s. See http://chinaposters.westminster.ac.uk/zenphoto/ for more information.

I graduated with distinction from Goldsmiths College, with an MA in International Studies (Politics). My Master's thesis was entitled 'Collecting China: Objects and the Ownership of History', and was supervised by Prof. Michael Dutton. I did my undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh, where I complete an MA (hons) in History.