Gargi Chaturvedi is a PhD student at the Centre for Chinese and South-East Asian Studies (CCSEAS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has completed her B.A. (Hons) in Chinese & M.A. in Chinese from the CCSEAS, JNU. She was awarded the CSC Scholarship through the Ministry of Human Resource Development, GOI, for pursuing a Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Chinese at Beijing Language & Culture University, Beijing (2021-2022). She was awarded a JRF in Chinese by the UGC in 2023. Her research interests include the cultural policy of the PRC, modern and contemporary Chinese literature, and gender and migration issues in Post-reform China. She has presented research work at the All India Conference of China Studies (2024) and Conference on Domestic Governance in China (2022). Her doctoral research aims to define and situate Red Culture within Xi Jinping’s New Era discourse, analysing its ideological roots, historical framing, and public consumption.
Namita Sharma is a PhD student at the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University. She completed her Masters in Politics and International Relations from Pondicherry University. Before joining the PhD program, she was associated with the Indian Institute of Management Indore as an academic associate. Her doctoral project aims to trace the interplay between state power and societal compliance in contemporary China. She has also presented her work at the 17th All India Conference on China Studies.
