Ruiyi Zhu

Ruiyi Zhu is a social anthropologist with a keen interest in global China. Her doctoral thesis focuses on Chinese labour migrants in Mongolia’s post-socialist extractive economy, demonstrating how domestic political economic processes influence patterns of transnational engagement. As a research fellow at King’s, she will build on previous research and transition her inquiry from labour surplus to protein deficiency within the broader framework of global China. Specifically, she will explore how biopolitics, nutritional science, and the transnational food industry shape Chinese dietary thoughts and practices. Ruiyi received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2023. Before returning to Cambridge, she was a Global Perspectives on Society Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU Shanghai.