Weidi Zheng recently completed her postdoctoral research in Digital Humanities at King’s College London, serving as the lead researcher on the European Research Council–funded project ‘Digital Infrastructures along the New Silk Road’. She earned her PhD in Media Studies from SOAS University of London. Her PhD involved a year-long ethnographic study of the discursive competitions surrounding China’s Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure, working with Kenyan-Chinese reporters, SOEs, and small traders in Kenya.