Tianyun Hua is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UC Davis. Her research interests focus on labor and literature in China, Germany, and Britain the 19th and 20th Centuries. She is now working on her dissertation “Locating Literature in Labor: Transnational Mobility of Labor and Modern Chinese Literature, 1900-1937.” She teaches courses for Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages & Cultures, including COM 003 Major Works of the Modern World, CHN 010 Modern Chinese Literature in Translation, and CHN 101 Chinese Film.