[3][4] She then pursued the Master's programme at Yenching Academy, a graduate college of Peking University, in Beijing.
[5] After reading the assigned reading, Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman, Watson insisted on changing majors to Chinese literature, and began the process of self-teaching herself to translate literature.
[6] Chinese novelist Su Tong gave a month-long series of lectures at NYU, which Watson assisted by providing English language translations of his discussed stories throughout.
[5] Her debut novel Lessons in Birdwatching was published by Angry Robot in 2023 in the US and UK to positive reviews.
[9] Watson's first novel-length translation was Fan Wu's Souls Left Behind: A WW1 Chinese Labour Corps Novel.