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Zelin Pei

Ph.D. Student
UNESCO Research Assistant
Zelin Pei headshot 2024

Economics 422

Research Areas
US History
Environmental history of China

I am interested in environmental history, the history of technology, and modern Chinese history. My doctoral dissertation examines the technology and politics of aids to navigation in the maritime and riverine environments of the China Seas and the Yangtze River from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. I am also interested in incorporating the Geographic Information Systems into environmental history.