Wang Zanwei joined the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2018 as an assistant professor in the Institute of Japanese Studies. Her scholarly work focuses on the history of earthquake disasters in China and Japan. Her current work continues to examine China’s ecological civilization construction and global climate change, biodiversity governance, and sustainable development policies. From 2014 to 2016, Zanwei studied at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo under the sponsorship of the Japan Foundation and the China Scholarship Council. Eyes on both history and reality, her research interest covers broad topics from climate to disasters with emphasis on China and Japan, in the hope of increasing collaboration between the two countries.