Mengyao Li is a PhD researcher in Human Geography at the University of Melbourne and the University of Manchester. Her research areas are environmental governance, political ecology, and feminist geography in China.

Rebooting Qualitative Research in China: Reflections on Doing Fieldwork in the Post-Covid Era

With the lifting of pandemic-related travel restrictions, international researchers are now returning to China. While the end of ‘Zero-Covid’ opens new possibilities for mobility and access, China remains a challenging environment for fieldwork; given current geopolitical tensions, mounting anti-foreign (and anti-Chinese) rhetoric, and an ever-growing list of ‘sensitive’ research topics, it seems unlikely that conditions […]

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