Fleeing One Homeland and Adopting Another: The Construction of State Identity in a Northern Thailand Village

Professor Zhang Jinpeng (Ph.D.) teaches at the School of Ethnology and Sociology at Yunnan University, and serves as a doctoral dissertation adviser. Zhang’s research interests include the economic lives of ethnic minorities, cross-border ethnic minorities, and the economic history of China. She has published six monographs and more than sixty peer-reviewed articles. She has received research funding from the National Social Science Fund of China. She has been recognized for her academic and professional achievements with accolades such as the first and third prizes in social science studies in Yunnan province, and the Outstanding Teacher Award of Yunnan University, sponsored by Wu Daguan Education Fund, which she won twice. Zhang was also named in 2019 a Yunling Scholar of the Yunnan Provincial Ten-Thousand-researcher Program.