Ziwei Zhang

Ziwei Zhang is a PhD candidate in Urban and Regional Planning, specializing in agrarian transformation amid urbanization and national development, with a focus on labor, society, and the environment. Engaging with political ecology, her ongoing dissertation investigates how China’s rural revolutions and reforms have shaped the interplay between the environment and rural society, through a detailed case study of a tea county. She has presented her academic work at conferences across various disciplines, including geography, environmental studies, peasant studies, and China studies. Her research is supported by multiple centers and institutions. In addition to her primary research in China, she is involved in projects in Indonesia and Mexico, addressing land tenure, resource management, and institutional building. She has published papers in Journal of Agrarian Change.