He is currently a PhD student at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, formerly B.A. and M.A. in Ancient Chinese Philology from the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China, and assistant at the International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures. His research interests include Qin-Han history, classical philology and text study, especially the formation of ancient texts and intellectual history. He has been engaged in academic translation for many years and is the translator and editor of the book Into the River of History: William Nienhauser's Collection of Essays on the Shiji.