ZHANG Jinjin (Kimie)
张金金

ZHANG Jinjin (Kimie) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Japanese Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature from Sun Yat-sen University and an M.Sc. in Global China Studies from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her dissertation, titled “Making Places, Making Futures: Digital Transformation for Regional Revitalization in Contemporary Japan,” examines the knowledge and politics behind using emerging technologies (such as Web3) to support depopulating and marginalized communities across Japan. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of digital anthropology, science and technology studies, migration and mobility studies, community studies, and comparative social analysis in East Asia. She was a Japan Foundation Fellow (2023–2024) at Waseda University. During her residency at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, she will refine her doctoral project and develop further comparative research between China and Japan, focusing on digital approaches to revitalizing rural communities and their implications for regional stratification and nation-building.