Her research focuses on land institutions and property rights in early modern and modern China, with particular emphasis on the role of intermediaries in land transactions and contract choice in the process of land development.Her work combines the digitization of original land contracts with both quantitative analysis and institutional theory. She has built a large dataset of historical tenancy and land contracts, through which she explores the transformation of land rights, intermediary roles in land markets, and the evolution of informal institutions in frontier regions.

She is also working on a project using micro-level commercial statistics from early 20th-century Beijing to examine the spatial structure and transformation of urban commerce, with an emphasis on the political identity of cities and their influence on business development.

During her time at Oxford, she hopes to learn more about British land institutions, tenancy contracts, and property rights in historical perspective, with the aim of developing comparative insights.