Ziying Xu

Ziying received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Xiamen University. During her undergraduate studies, she gained brief fieldwork and archaeological excavation experience in Guangdong and Hunan provinces in China, as well as in Senegal. Her current research interests focus on informal markets, commodity circulation, supply chains, and the material and social dimensions of waste in urban China. She is also interested in “renao 热闹”, a culturally specific sensory concept often associated with lively public life and literally meaning “heat and noise”.