Shasha utilizes compositional, interdisciplinary, and collaborative approaches within the form of 'conceptual (new) music theater,’ to examine socio-political topics such as identity, gender, power dynamics, patriarchy, social injustice, immigration, the cultural impacts of colonization, and narratives under global capitalism, war and violence. Shasha’s practice is often playful, confrontational, or even provocative, with a focus on the musicality of relationships, representation, fragmentation, and re-contextualization.

They/ She is the recipient and artist-in-residence of the 2025 International Hanns Eisler Scholarship of the City of Leipzig, she is also the winner of the 2024 Presser Music Award, and has received a fellowship to Art Omi Residency. Her music has been programed for Wiener Festwochen, TIME:SPANS Festival, MaerzMusik Festival, Forecast Forum, “PHŒNIX SATELLITE,” Montréal Contemporary Music Lab, impuls Music festival, etc. She has worked with Talea Ensemble (New York), loadbang (New York), International Contemporary Ensemble/ Ensemble Evolution (New York) , Ensemble Dal Niente (Chicago), LIGAMENT (Baltimore), Klangforum Wien (Vienna), Ensemble Musikfabrik (Cologne), Ensemble Phoenix (Basel), Ensemble NEKO3 (Copenhagen), Ensemble Linea (Strasbourg), Sculptor Christopher Cairns’ Studio (Philadelphia), among other musicians and artists.

Shasha is also a multi-media artist, and a performer. She makes performance art, conceptual art, sound and visual installations. Her art works have been exhibited/ performed in esc median kunst labor Gallery (Graz), Shanghai Himalayas Museum, The Latitude Gallery (New York), Shanghai Jingguan Space, Luan Gallery (Beijing), New York School of Visual Arts (USA), etc, she has performed in Shanghai UCCA Edge (China). She plays piano, guqin and others, she has performed Shakuhachi with Hogaku Ensemble in Columbia University (New York), she played in many rock bands when she was young.

She has completed all her doctoral courses and is currently in the independent research phase of her degree at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University under the guidance of Prof. Michael Hersch. She holds a master's degree in classical composition from Manhattan School of Music with Dr. Reiko Füting and studied electronic music with Dr. David Adamcyk. Composers she had lessons with and who influenced her most include Peter Ablinger, Isabel Mundry, Martin Schüttler, Chaya Czernowin, Johannes Kreidler, among others. She holds a bachelor's degree from Renmin University of China.

She climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa in 2012 to search for The leopard from Hemingway’s novel “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” She did encounter it eventually, and they stared at each other for 3 minutes, exchanging their souls. She successfully reached the summit. Moreover, the lost-and-found story of her piano key at the foot of Kilimanjaro soon became a metaphor for her lost-and-returned relationship with music, which is the story of her life.