Dan Liu is a PhD researcher started from Feburary 2022. Her project critically examined the social impact of heritage-led gentrification in Beijing’s historic neighborhoods. Her current research explores governance shifts, the dynamics of tourism gentrification, invisible displacement driven by state-led regeneration and how affected residents engage in subtle, everyday forms of resistance. Drawing on qualitative methods such as in-depth interviews and digital ethnography, she approaches urban transformation from a Global South perspective, with a particular interest in theorizing displacement and resistance in non-Western contexts.
Before her PhD, she earned a Master’s degree in Human Geography from Sun Yat-sen University, China, where she focused on tourism development’s role in rural poverty alleviation and tourism transport accessibility.