He Bixiao
贺碧霄

Bixiao He attained her PhD degree in the School of Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai. She is now Associate Professor of Journalism in Sichuan University (2022-). Prior to that, she taught in Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou (main campus) as Assistant Professor (2011-2016) and Associate Professor (2016-2021). Dr He is a media historian focusing on the transformation of propaganda and information system in China, both historical and contemporary. She has published extensively in journals including Problems of Post-communism, Media History, American Journal of Chinese Studies and China Report. She was a Visiting Scholar at Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley (2015-2016) before she came to the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2016. She was again awarded a Special Short-Term fellowship by the Harvard-Yenching Institute in spring 2022, to conduct research on “Creating New Revolutionary Space: Building and Connecting the Overseas United Front Nexus of the CCP”. She has also awarded an American Studies Fellowship (ASF) and the China-US Scholars Program Fellowship (CUSP) (2022-2023) to further expand this project.

Current Research Projects: Creating New Revolutionary Space: Building and Connecting the Overseas United Front Nexus of the CCP