Cheuk Yee Wai has obtained her DPhil in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford in 2023. She holds an MPhil in Gender Studies and BA in Religious Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her general research interests revolve around representations of the erotic, females and taboos. Her DPhil thesis, ‘Sisters in Crime: Women and Illicit Sexual Affairs in Late Imperial Chinese Erotic Fiction’, focus on the representation of female bodies and female inter-relationships to the stereotypes of women from different background, and the instability of their relationship irrespective of their presumed social status. She is currently exploring further the topics of sexuality, women's everyday life and the perceptions of menstruation in pre-modern China. Before taking up the role of project support coordinator, she was a research assistant in the TEXTCOURT project. Beyond academia, she is also the co-founder of the registered charity Free Periods Hong Kong and is seeking for opportunities in furthering relevant educational work and research.
Profile: https://www.chinacentre.ox.ac.uk/people/cheuk-yee-wai