I am a postdoctoral research fellow at Heidelberg University (Germany), where I was sent by the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences for two years. I studied at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) and held research positions or fellowships at East China Normal University (China), National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), Harvard University (USA), and Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan). My research focuses on modern Chinese literature, colonial modernity in East Asia, and the representation of identity. I have published in peer-reviewed journals and presented my work at international conferences and workshops. Currently, I am completing a book manuscript on the representation of East Asian identities in Manchukuo’s Chinese-language literature. I have also translated works by Yang Mu and Egoyan Zheng into Czech.