Jingyu Chen

I graduated from the Institute of Anthropology at National Tsing Hua University and am currently conducting research on community-based conservation of the Skywalker Hoolock Gibbons (Hoolock tianxing) in Lisu communities in Yingjiang County, China, near the Sino-Myanmar border. Since 2018, I have been working as a project manager for Cloud Mountain Conservation, a grassroots NGO, where I focus on the conservation of Skywalker Gibbons and other non-human primates.

I finished my second master’s degree at University of Cambridge and now continuing pressuring my PhD degree, which is practice-oriented and grounded in social anthropology, offers a broader understanding of minority ethic group livelihoods and gibbon conservation in contemporary China. I advocate for integrating anthropological methodologies into interdisciplinary conservation research, emphasizing the social-ecological relationships of local communities. Through this interdisciplinary practice, I aim to develop a localized framework for community-based conservation within the Chinese cultural and political context.