These days I mostly write, although not exclusively, about Chinese literature, film and culture. My interest in the Chinese arts began back in 2004 when I lived in Beijing and spent much of my free time visiting artists’ studios, hanging around cosy book shops and stocking up on knock-off DVDs of Chinese and European movies.

When I returned to the UK, I worked at The Times of London’s Books’ section where I had the chance to report on art and literature in Cuba, Northern Iraq, Russia and China. One of these trips inspired me to move back to Beijing to study Chinese properly, which eventually led to a masters at SOAS in Chinese studies and an intensive language programme in Taipei.

I continue to be fascinated by China’s fast-paced and ever-shifting cultural climate, and the complex way in which it shapes and is shaped by its writers, filmmakers and artists. My work has appeared in publications such as Lithub, Los Angeles Review of Books, TIME, The Globe and Mail, Literary Review, The New Statesman, The Times of London and The Wall Street Journal. Please check out my book, The Subplot: What China is Reading and Why it Matters, which is published by Columbia Global Reports.