Bangce Cheng

Bangce Cheng is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Penn State University. His research interests include Sinophone literature and culture, translation studies, urban studies, and ecocriticism. His dissertation examines how literatures from three Asian regions—Hong Kong, Singapore, and Mainland China—engage urban ecologies as a lens for exploring complex, place-specific sociopolitical concerns, particularly in relation to these regions’ postcolonial and postsocialist transformations. Before coming to Penn State, he obtained his MPhil in Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, where he studied the translation and promotion of contemporary Chinese literature in the Anglophone world.