Postgraduate research in Chinese Studies

As a postgraduate research student in Chinese Studies, you will have access to supervisors who specialise in a broad range of topics related to modern and contemporary China. 

Our supervisors and their specialisms can be found below.

Dr. Christopher N. Payne

Supervises research in:

• Modern and contemporary literary-cultural production in the sinosphere, particularly those that explore nonmainstream, nonhegemonic constructions of otherness;
• Ecocritical themes in sinophone cultural production;
• Visual arts in and across the Asian continent (including China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia).

See Christopher's full academic research profile

Dr. Gregory Adam Scott

Supervises research in:

• Modern Chinese Buddhism;
• History of late-Imperial and modern China up to the 1960s, especially cultural, religious, ideological, social, and technological history;
• Digital Humanities

See Gregory's full academic research profile

Here's what some of our current students are researching:

• Yilong Liu – ‘Queer Films and Affect in Contemporary China'