Dr Hui Zhang, is an anthropologist trained in the London School of Economics and currently working as an associate professor at the Renmin University of China. Building on her PhD study on envy (2010), Dr. Zhang has developed her expertise on emotion and economics, in the hope of better understanding people’s responses to the newly arrived wealth and upmarket life style in Chinese societies, and to engage with issues like social status, morality and inequality. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research and developed a publication record for various projects in anthropology of emotion, urbanization and social inequality.

Education:

9.2020-9.2021, Visiting Scholar, University of Warsaw

Funded by Chinese Scholarship Council

10.2015-9.2016, Visiting Scholar, University of Rome (Sapienza).

Funded by Chinese Scholarship Council.

9.2005- 12.2010, Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics (LSE)

Research Interest: Economic Anthropology, Emotion, Social Inequality, and Urbanization

9.2004- 5.2005 MSc. in Social Anthropology (LSE), Pass with Merit

6.-8.2002 Institut D’etudes Politiques De Paris (Sciences Po)

Chinese Representative (25 representatives from 13 countries invited)

Invited and Funded by Sciences Po Asia-Europe Programme, Diploma with distinction

9.2001-6.2004 M. A. in Sociology, Tsinghua University

Dissertation title: Stigma and Discrimination, the case of HIV/AIDS in China

9.1997-7.2001 B.A. in Ethnology, Central University of Nationalities

Selected List of Publications

In English

“Suburban resettlement: urbanizing farmers in Chongqing and Kunming”, 2015,  Geography Research Forum , Vol.35: 28-41.

with Stephan Feuchtwang and Paula Morais ‘Failures of policy and plan in the formation of urban community’, 2015, in Francois Gipouloux (ed) China’s Urban Century; Governance, environment and socio-economic imperatives, London: Edward Edgar, 2015, pp 195-212.

“The ethics of envy avoidance in contemporary China” in Charles Stafford ed.  Ordinary Ethics , 2013, pp115-132.

In Chinese

“Believing is not from Hearing”, “Unexplainable Situations”, and “Silence due to Death”: Scenarios for Reflections on Language Centered Methodologies, 2020, Journal of Chinese Women Studies, 3: 49-57.

with Krzysztof Kardaszewicz, “One Belt One Road and Chinese immigrants in Poland”, 2018, Population Research, 42(3):101-112.

with Huang, Jianbo, “Anxiety, fear and the ordinary life in our time”, 2017, Journal of Southwest Minzu University, 9: 6-12.

Envy and windfall wealth: an anthropological study , 2016, Social Science Academic Press (China).

“The new transition of local research paradigm of Economic Anthropology”, 2015, Journal of Minzu University of China (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), 42 (6): 100-107.

with Paula Morais and Stephan Feuchtwang, 2015, “The formation of sustainable urban communities: a bottom-up perspective”, Sociological Review of China, 4: 68-80.

“Auspiciousness, Luck and Fate: a Cultural Interpretation of Windfall Wealth”, 2015,  Sixiang Zhanxian , 2: 49-54.

“Envy and Perceived Inequality: Analysis on the official discourse of ‘red-eye disease’ and ‘wealth hatred mentality’”, 2014, Academia Bimestris (Xuehai) , 5: 143-151.

“An anthropological study of ‘red-eye’: the case of mining disputes in Northeast China”, 2014,  Folklore Studies (Minsu Yanjiu) , 6: 115-123 .

“Prospects of the Research on Anthropology of Emotion”,  Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities , 2013, 35 (6), pp 60-65.