Qi Gui

Qi Gui earned a Bachelor of Laws in Sociology from Sun Yat-sen Univeristy and is currently completing his MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven, Belgium. He is interested in how intersectionality, such as gender, race, sexuality, class, nationality, shapes individuals' lived experience, particularly in imaginaries, emotions ,subjectivities and identity.

He is currently completing his master's thesis, "Blessed torture:Mobility, Subjectivity and Anxiety of Chinese Gen-Z", which explores the elusive and intangible nature of mobility and focuses on meanings given to life through the movement. Specifically, he looks at the abiding role that imaginaries played in mobility. Imaginaries either culturally include or exclude individuals, reshaping the spatial-temporality conditions and form subjectivities. In his ethnography, he contextualized the contemporary China society to elaborate few insights on the modern mobility pattern. His aim is to depict a vivid image of his field experience, endeavoring to illustrate the involution and anxiety of Gen-Z pursuing upward mobility in Neoliberal China, euphoria yet still lugubrious.

Qi has travelled and photographed intensively in more than 45 countries, including his native China, as well as India, Myanmar, USA, France, Japan, Morocco, etc. 

Areas of interest:

Migration, Sexuality and Gender, Queer Studies, Affect, Embodiment, Race, and Social Movements.