Li Zhangis a Research Fellow in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. She was awarded the European Studies in Asia (ESiA) Young Academic’s Research Fellowship by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) in 2009 and took the fellowship in the National Centre for Research on Europe at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and the European Union Centre in Singapore. She holds a PhD in International Communications from the University of Leeds.