Ziwei Zhang

Ziwei Zhang is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Urban Planning, specializing in agrarian transformation under urbanization and national development. Her research revolves around the historical trajectory of environmental change, ecological discourse, and agricultural modernization in twentieth-century China. She has presented her 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 Landscape Architecture Frontiers and several conference proceedings.

Project: The Search for Rural Modernity in Urban China: A Survey of China's Scholar-Activist Networks for Rural Modernization