Ma Zhen <\/b>is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Religious Diversity.\u00a0She is currently working on a project dealing with transnational interactions between southwest China and Myanmar, with a focus on the two interrelated issues of Theravada Buddhist networks and cross-border marriage.\u00a0She was previously funded by a CSC-DAAD scholarship in 2016 and has been at the institute since February 2017.\u00a0She earned a Ph.D.\u00a0at the School for the Study of Ethnology and Sociology, Minzu University of China.\u00a0In her doctoral thesis, she dealt with pu’er tea and the encounter between Chinese ethnic minorities and modernity in southwest China.\u00a0Her research interests are in the culture of Theravada Buddhism, material culture and visual anthropology,\u00a0particularly with respect to ethnic minorities in southwest China such as the Bulang, Dai, Wa and Bai.\u00a0In addition to her research, she has also made five ethnographic films.\u00a0Her film “Living on Tea” was nominated by the Second Beijing Ethnographic Film Festival in November 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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