Kai Shmushko is a Post-doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Sociology Department at the University of Amsterdam. Her academic grounding is China Studies, Religious studies, and Cultural Sociology with a strong orientation towards ethnographic and mixed methods research, including digital ethnography. Her research stands in the nexus of several primary interests: religion and spirituality among Chinese societies and diasporic Chinese communities; heritage and material culture of Chinese religions; Chinese religious and cultural production in new media and religion and politics of the Chinese sphere. She furthermore held research periods and received research grants from Renmin University, Fudan University and Taiwan Chengchi University, and before her current position she worked as a lecturer at Leiden University.