Sophia Kidd Author

Dr. Sophia G. Kidd is an Associate Research Fellow in the Classical Chinese Literature Department of the College of Journalism and Literature at Sichuan University in Sichuan, China. She has been Visiting Scholar at Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Göttingen, where she lectured on Chinese contemporary art and politics as well as the role of cultural production in the building of China’s New Silk Roads. Her Ph.D. research focused on spatial production and literary geography in Eastern Jin Guo Pu’s literature, in particular the ‘River Fu.’ Sophia Kidd works as an arts professional, scholar, and writer in both Southwest USA and Southwest China, integrating regional aesthetics with cultural studies to gain both synchronic and diachronic insight into the greater milieu of China’s role in global governance.