Zhe Wang is a Departmental Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. She holds a DPhil in Human Geography from the University of Oxford. Before joining OSGA, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Education, University of Oxford.
Her research focuses on international education and student mobility, transnational migration and urban transformation, and social inequality and development in China and Southeast Asia. She has published widely on Chinese student mobility, return migration, and the social impacts of international higher education. Her recent monograph is Transnational Student Return Migration and Megacities in China: Practices of Cityzenship (Springer, 2023).