Ruiyi Zhu

Ruiyi Zhu is a social anthropologist with a keen interest in China-Mongolia relations. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2023. Her doctoral research focuses on Chinese capital and labor in Mongolia’s post-socialist extractive economy. Her writing received the graduate student paper prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology, and her ethnographic photography was selected as a winner of the American Anthropological Association’s annual photo contest.

Select Publications

• Zhu, Ruiyi. 2022. Book Review of Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization, written by Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen. Inner Asia, 24 (2), 342–344.

• Sorace, Christian and Zhu Ruiyi. 2022. The Short-Lived Eternity of Friendship: Chinese Workers in Socialist Mongolia (1955-1964) in Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour, London: Verso, pp. 250-264.

• Zhu, Ruiyi. 2021. The Double-tongued Dilemma: Translating Chinese Workers’ Relations in Mongolia, Made in China. https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/01/25/the-double-tongued-dilemma-translating-chinese-workers-relations-in-mongolia/.

• Benussi, Teo and Zhu Ruiyi. 2020. Diasporic Cassandras: Time, Space, and Ethos among Transnational Chinese and Italians at the Time of COVID-19, Somatosphere, published 31 March 2020. http://somatosphere.net/forumpost/diasporic-cassandras-covid19.

Education

•  PhD, Anthropology
   University of Cambridge (2023)

• MPhil, Social Anthropology
  University of Cambridge (2018)

• BA, History
  Pomona College (2014)

   

Research Interests

• Economic anthropology 

• Political anthropology 

• Globalization 

• Development 

• Translation 

• Food