Yifei Li is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai, and a Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU. His research focuses on the macro-level implications of Chinese environmental governance for state-society relations, marginalised populations and global ecological sustainability, as well as the micro-level bureaucratic processes of China’s state interventions into the environmental realm. He is co-author of China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet (Polity, 2020).