She received her BA and MA in History from Shandong University and her PhD in History from New York University (2011). She taught for four years at Wabash College in Indiana, and since 2016 she has been a Global Perspectives on Society Fellow at NYU-Shanghai. Dr. Zhu’s research focuses on Modern Chinese History and on China’s current global challenges. Her first project is a comparative and transnational inquiry of intellectual and cultural history focused on Chinese leftism and anti-colonialism in Southeast Asia, 19381948. She has a second project on feminism and everyday life in post-socialist China, which focuses on feminism in entrepreneurship, reproductive labor, and social welfare and is based in part on interviews with entrepreneurs and migrant workers in Shanghai as well as archival research and social media.