Hi, I’m Xiwen Zhang, I come from Yunnan, China. My research interests are broadly focused on regional studies in China and Southeast Asia, political-economic development, political ecology, human rights, agri-food financialization, rural sociology, and the digital platform economy. I'm especially interested in the political-economic and socio-cultural dimensions of human-environment interactions through the lens of global south feminism. Currently, my study aims to investigate the social and environmental implications of financialization and digitalization processes in Puer tea plantations in combination with coercive state and provincial ecological civilization policies in my hometown of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan.