Yumeng earned a B.A. Degree from Sun Yat-Sen University in Chinese Language and Literature. Her research interest includes contemporary Chinese, Taiwanese and Malaysian Chinese literature, gender politics and sexism in contemporary China, and diaspora and transnationalism of cross-border cultural products such as the media representations of African community in Guangzhou, China. In her spare time, she enjoys reading English and French literature of 19th and 20th century.