Yuanyuan Su is a DPhil candidate in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. She completed her BA in Literature, History and Philosophy with a minor in Law and Business Studies one year ahead of the programme schedule at Wuhan University. At SOAS, University of London, she received an MA in Chinese Literature and developed her interest in Manchu literature, especially the zidishu 子弟書 (youth tales), a storytelling genre prevalent among Manchu bannermen in the mid and late Qing dynasty (around 1735-1912). Moving to Oxford and under the continued supervision of Prof. Tian Yuan Tan, her current research is a first attempt to question and challenge previous zidishu's authorship attribution by generating a new linguistic methodology.