Dr. Lei Zhou

Dr. Lei Zhou has a doctoral degree in anthropology from Yunnan University. He is a Chevening Scholar at the London School of Economics and has studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Centre. Prior to his academic research, he has worked full time as environmental journalist for Xinhua News Agency for over five years. After his post-doc at Nanjing University, he founded Oriental Danology Institute, an independent think tank based in Shanghai, focusing on media politics and environmental issues, especially on the negative ecological impacts wreaked by Chinese outbound investment in Brazil, Myanmar, Nepal, India, Thailand, South Africa. He is based in Shanghai and can be reached at lei.zhou@odinfinity.org.

Talk title: Vivideath: Mapping Chinese Rivers on the Wane

CHEW Conference 2014: Schedule

Health, Environment and Welfare in a Changing China

Date: ​​30 April 2014
Time: ​​10:30 am – 5:30 pm
Venue:​ E P Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford

10:30 am​ Welcome and introduction

10:45 am​ HEALTH panel

• Therese Hesketh, University College London, Impact of Demographic Change in China

• Tara Garnett, The Food Climate Research Network, University of Oxford, ‘Transformations in China’s food system: the implications for nutrition, health and the environment’

• Anna Lora-Wainwright, University of Oxford (S), Doing anthropology of cancer in rural China.

12:15 pm ​Lunch

1:00 pm​ Keynote speech

Michael Hathaway, Simon Fraser University: The Emergence of Global Environmentalism in China

1:30 pm ​ENVIRONMENT panel

• Sam Geall, chinadialogue.net, Green movements in China,

• Lei Zhou, Oriental Danology Institute, Vivideath: Mapping Chinese Rivers on the Wane (S)

• Guy Leung, King’s College London, A Supply Chain Approach to China’s Natural Gas Transition: Actors and Institutions,

3:00 pm​ Coffee break

3:30 pm ​WELFARE panel

• Chengzhi Yi, East China University of Political Science and Law, How Public Service Resources Are Allocated in Metropolitan Rural-urban Fringe Zones

• Tim Pringle, SOAS, Labour in China: From a ‘moment’ to a movement?

• Daniel Morley:  The Chinese working class in revolution from 1911 to today

5:00 pm ​Concluding remarks

Isabel Hilton OBE

5:30 pm Wine reception

 

(S) = to speak via Skype