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Peiwen Xiong

PhD student

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Biography

Peiwen is a PhD student from China. Before coming to King's, she completed her Master's in both China and the UK. Peiwen also has three years of working experience as a product manager at tech firms.

Her research interests relate to transnational and multinational companies, particularly those at the forefront of the tech war between China and the United States, such as Tiktok and Huawei.

Peiwen has been looking at the ongoing US tech blockade of China and trying to explore (possible) ways for Chinese firms to respond US sanctions. She would like to investigate how this technological cold war will affect the future of the world.

Research

Thesis title: 'Can Chinese Firms Break Free from the US Hi-Tech Blockade? Investigating the New Era of Techno-Nationalist Globalization'

PhD supervision

Primary supervisor: Sean Starrs

Further details

See Peiwen's research profile

Research

Aerial view of the City
Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group

We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.

Research

Aerial view of the City
Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group

We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.