Hometown:
Shaoyang City, Hunan Province, P. R. China
About Me:
I am a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, where my faculty advisor is Prof. John H. Bodley. My current research interests are in Chinese minorities, rural development, and contemporary issues. My dissertation project is on the impacts of tourism development in Hunan Province. I received a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 2000 and a master’s degree in folklore in 2003 at Central University of Nationalities, Beijing, P. R. China. I worked as an intern journalist covering the reporting of China’s minority areas development at People’s Daily, Beijing, in 2000 and 2002.
Area(s) of Training
applied anthropology, cultural anthropology, ethnography
Area(s) of Expertise
sustainable development; China; social inequality; structural violence; power and scale
Current Area of Employment
full-time phd student
