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I'm Siyu, a DPhil candidate in Anthropology at the University of Oxford. My work is broadly concerned with the transforming relationships between labour, capital, and governance in contemporary China. My research is supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust.

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I conducted the fieldwork of my doctoral research in Hegang, Heilongjiang Province, China. Entitled Utopia of Indolence: Imagining and Inhabiting Housing in Chinaʼs Rust Belt , my dissertation examines a notable shift in the labor landscape in China, namely when disenfranchised migrant workers chose to withdraw from industrial wage labor, and pick up online gig work, while dwelling in geographically peripheral and low-cost localities to adopt a low-income and low-spending lifestyle. I am currently finishing my thesis, as well as two peer-reviewed articles resulting from the doctoral research.

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At Oxford, I have taught lecturers, seminars, and tutorials at the Social Science Division, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, and Department of International Development.

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I hold a BS in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, and an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford.

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Besides doing rersearch in anthropology, I'm also a self-shooting director​. You can find my audio-visual works in the other tabs.