IAPS travel bursary for Jing Cheng

IAPS has awarded a travel bursary to Jing Cheng, a second-year PhD candidate in the School of Politics and International Relations. Jing’s project looks into the discursive construction of Chinese nationalism and the impact of the Internet on state-society relations in China. More specifically, it examines how collective memories of the national past are constructed and reconstructed in the changing power dynamics among different social groups in the digital age. She is going to China on 22 March to start her fieldwork. During the two-month fieldwork, she will be based at Tsinghua University as a visiting student, and meanwhile collect data from libraries and museums and conduct interviews with government officials, university professors and netizens. This fieldwork will contribute substantively to the empirical chapters of her PhD thesis.