Delia Lin is an Associate Professor in Chinese Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her motivation for research has been to discover the underlying patterns of contemporary Chinese governance through examining how cultural terms, traditional ideas and key concepts are built into the integrands of law, education and government polices by various actors, shaping the ways the society thinks, functions and interacts with the world. Her monograph, Civilising Citizens in Post-Mao China: Understanding the Rhetoric of Suzhi (Routledge, 2017) examines the predominant discourse of suzhi (roughly translated as 'human quality') and the cultural, philosophical and psychological underpinnings of this discourse. Using a new method to analyse Chinese governance—one that is both historical and discursive in approach—the book demonstrates how suzhi has been made into a political resource by the Chinese Communist Party-State, journeying from Confucian political thought to Chinese Socialism. She is now working on projects relating to the ways elites use references to traditional ideas, particularly those with significant cultural resonance, to garner support for policies and institutions.