{"id":10807,"date":"2020-08-30T17:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T21:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10807"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:57:20","slug":"xuyi-zhao","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/profile\/xuyi-zhao\/","title":{"rendered":"Xuyi Zhao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matriculated September 2018<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p><span>Temporality, urbanization and city-making, mobility, gender, anthropology of the state, infrastructure, political economy of China<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>About<\/h3>\n<p><span>Xuyi Zhao is an urban ethnographer broadly interested in city-making, temporality, gender, and (im)mobility. Her current research investigates state-engineered urbanization in Southwest China at the intersection of infrastructural urbanism, community building, and the reconfigurations of time. Based on 15 months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, her doctoral dissertation traces, inter alia, what futures are prefigured or precluded by master-planned urban transformation, what kinds of political consciousness and collective imagination are engendered in the process, and how they materialize to both perpetuate and change social dynamics surrounding class, family, and work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Prior to joining BU, Zhao studied political science at Peking University for her undergraduate degree and obtained an MPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Cambridge. Her publications have appeared in <em>City &amp; Society<\/em>, <em>Asian Journal of Women\u2019s Studies<\/em>, the <em>Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology<\/em> book series, and the Frederick S. Pardee Center\u2019s <em>Issues in Brief<\/em> series. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Awards &amp; Grants<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Bloom Dissertation Fellowship, Boston University (2024)<\/li>\n<li>China-U.S. Scholars Program (CUSP), Institute of International Education (2024)<\/li>\n<li>BU Center for Innovation in Social Science (CISS) Travel Award (2023)<\/li>\n<li>Boston University Women\u2019s Council Award (2023)<\/li>\n<li>Frederick S. Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellowship (2023)<\/li>\n<li>Senior Core Curriculum Writing Fellowship (2023)<\/li>\n<li>Boston University Long-term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (2022)<\/li>\n<li>The Association for Asian Studies Graduate Research Grant (2021)<\/li>\n<li>Initiative on Cities (IOC) Early Stage Urban Research Award (2021)<\/li>\n<li>Boston University Short-term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (2021)<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Small Grant (2019 &amp; 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Boston University Dean\u2019s Fellowship (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 &amp; 2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cA Timespace of Zero-COVID in Southwest China: Building Community, Governing Time.\u201d <em>City &amp; Society<\/em> 36(3): 160\u2013170. <span><a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/ciso.12502\">http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/ciso.12502<\/a><\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>(<em>Honorable Mention<\/em>, 2023 Critical Urban Anthropology Association Graduate Student Paper Prize)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2018I\u2019m not a Feminist, but\u2026\u2019 Hegemonic Femininities and Women\u2019s Autonomy Revisited in a Chinese University.\u201d <em>Asian Journal of Women\u2019s Studies<\/em> 29(3): 344\u2013363. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/12259276.2023.2254961\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/12259276.2023.2254961<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9123,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16389,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10807\/revisions\/16389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}