According to theories of modernism in the study of nations and nationalism, nationalism as a doctrine and collective attachment became only possible since the modernisation in Euro-American region. My thesis proposed that the study of national consciousness in China and East Asia could bring a different insight on this issue.
I received my bachelor degree from the United International College of Beijing Normal University and Hong Kong Baptist University in 2010, and then MA from Queen Mary, University of London in 2012, and both of these degrees are international relations. I entered University of Sheffield as the PhD candidate in 2014, but decided to transfer the Kingston University in 2016.