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. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of digital anthropology, science and technology studies, critical data studies, migration and mobility studies. Her dissertation “Animating Relationality: Digital Life-making in Depopulating Japan”, ethnographically examines infrastructural politics, structures of feeling, and often-invisible labor behind the digital revitalization campaign to address the problem of a “shrinking” and “relationless” society. Jinjin 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 socio-technical visions, innovation experiments, data justice, community building, alternative lifestyles and well-being. She is engaged in public scholarship and multi-media dialogues to promote a better understanding of East Asia and anthropological knowledge, primarily on platforms like Xiaohongshu (Rednote), WeChat Public Account, and podcasts. For more information, please visit her website: https://saintau0316.wixsite.com/kimiezjj