Yishan Jiang received her PhD in Comparative Literature from University College London (UCL). 

Her research lies at the intersection of comparative literature, Chinese studies, and transcultural studies, with a particular interest in kinship as a cultural discourse across Chinese and Anglophone contexts. Her doctoral research examined representations and discourses of Chinese kinship in China and the Anglophone world during the first half of the twentieth century, with particular attention to their intersections with modernity, nationalism, and transcultural exchange.

Her current research extends these interests to changing forms and imaginaries of kinship in contemporary China. She is particularly interested in how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, are reshaping understandings of intimacy, relationality, and kinship.

At HKUST, she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, comparative and world literature, film, and visual culture. Before joining HKUST, she was a Lecturer at the University of St Andrews (UK), where she taught Chinese and comparative literature.