She teaches and conducts research on environmental sociology, rural policy and environment policy in China. In 2005-2008 she was an Assistant Professor at Guangdong Peizheng College, Guangzhou, Guangdong and an Assistant Professor at Qingdao Technological University, Qingdao, Shandong, China. She studied at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Peking University from 2009-2011 as an exchange PhD student, and received her Ph.D. in International Studies from Waseda University in 2011. She served as a translator for the former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and former Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at a meeting on environment, which was part of the Japan-China-South Korea trilateral summit in Beijing in 2009.