{"id":3660,"date":"2018-02-21T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=3660"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:48:47","slug":"youyi-zhang","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/profile\/youyi-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Youyi Zhang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Youyi Zhang is a <span>Former<\/span> Global China Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and a Ph.D. candidate in the Government Department at Cornell University. His research mainly focuses on foreign investment, foreign aid, ethnic\/nationalistic conflict and international security, with a particular interest in the political implications of Chinese state-driven investment in Southeast Asia and Africa, in particular power and infrastructure sectors. He is also a visiting research fellow at Cambodia Institute for Peace and Conflict and a research partner working with Yangon School of Political Science.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Cornell, he completed his masters degree in political science in Columbia University and was an international fellow at Columbia SIPA in 2011-2012 academic year. His research has been funded by Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies China-Africa Research Initiative, Cornell University East Asia Program, Cornell University Southeast Asia Program and International Growth Center. His most recent publications appear at the <em>Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs<\/em> and the <em>New Mandala.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10886,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10886"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25208,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3660\/revisions\/25208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}