Mengyao has gained her PhD degree in April 2019, supervised by Professor Shane Blackman.

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From September, she will be an adjunct lecturer teaching the course 'Music, Art and Popular Culture in a Global Context' at Endicott College in Boston, USA.

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She has two upcoming publications in 2019, which includes:

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"China", in Wells, K. (eds.) Teen Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia.ABC-CLIO

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"Into the Canterbury D.I.Y. music scene: Student bands and independent record labels", in Draganova, A., Blackman, S., Bennett, A. (eds.) Canterbury Sound: Place, Music and Myth.Emerald Publishing

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