Solange Guo Chatelard is a PhD candidate at Sciences Po in Paris and a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Based on long-term fieldwork in rural China and among Chinese sojourners in Zambia, her work focuses on everyday state formation and the question of Chinese ‘modernity’. Her PhD thesis is an ethnography of Chinese engagement in Zambia from the 1990s until today.