Gaoheng Zhang is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of three monographs focused on China-Italy cultural mobilities and communications: Migration and the Media: Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992-2012 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019), Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas: Transcultural Food Mobilities (New York: Fordham University Press, 2025), and Fashion Communications Between Italy and China: Unfolding a Sartorial Relationship (London: Bloomsbury, 2025). His current research project is tentatively titled: “Scrambles for East Africa: Media and Cultural Debates between China, Western Europe, and East Africa.”