• Post-socialist society
• media politics
• altermodernism
• digital fracturing
• water resource management
• relational aesthetics and cognitive poisons of Artificial Intelligence
• digital surrealism
• GMO soybean plantation in Brazi
• gentrification and infoscaping of post-socialist cities

Lei Zhou has a Dr. in anthropology, graduated from Johns Hopkins Nanjing Center, Nanjing University, Yunnan University and London School of Economics, he is a design anthropologist, water conservationist and an artist. He co-initiated a hub connecting design, education, art and ecological campaign at www.herbauhaus.com and a phenomenon-based education network at www.china-pi.org . With environmental advocacy, children friendly society and global south post-contemporaneity connectivity in mind, he explores the potential solutions for a precarious society fissured by the uneasy coexistence of highly compartmented, specialized, and closed knowledge communities exacerbated by post-pandemic corona-wreck scene.

• 2015 Tibet : la construction médiatique d’une culture ethnique,  Raison présente 2015/1 (N° 193), pages 81 à 92
• 2015  China’s Silk Web Terrestrial Ideoscape: Opportunities and Challenges, Swarajya, India, Jul, 20.
• 2013 From Pixação to Manifestation: “Readable” Brazilian Social Protest (in Chinese), New York Times Chinese Website.
• 2013  Kunming Protest of PX Factory and Disaster Ethno: The Advent of Eco-Zionism (in Chinese), New York Times Chinese Website, http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20130509/cc09kunming/
• 2013  Water Resource Management and Its Interaction with Political Paradigms: Two Comparative Cases in Dianchi Lake and Three Parallel Rivers Region, Working paper, Regional Center for Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
• 2010  Local Understanding of a Melting Glacier: Conversing With Lamas and Circumambulators in Shangri-La, China Environment Series, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Issue 11, 2010/2011.
• 2010   Sex Work in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands, Asian Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• 2010  Conceptualizing “Political Other Shore” (Bi’an): The Advent of the Post-ecological Era in which “Ignowledge” is Strength, Berkeley Planning Journal, Issue in December.