Visiting Researchers
Visiting Researchers in 2026
Ang Cao is an Associate Professor at the College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University. Her research interests include health communication, communication and social development, gender studies, children and media, and rural communication. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the roles of communication, media, and digital technologies in shaping health, social inequalities, and social change in contemporary China.
She currently leads a project funded by the National Social Science Fund of China on public risk perception and communication of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Her other research examines digital literacy and digital practices in rural communities, particularly among rural women.
Her research has addressed health narratives among female migrant workers, advocacy by labor NGOs, and digital literacy practices among rural homestay inn operators. Her work has been published in Health Communication and Chinese Journal of Communication, among other journals.
Hanna Sahlberg is a senior reporter covering China for the Swedish Radio. She opened the first Beijing bureau of the Swedish Radio in Beijing in 2006 and worked as a correspondent 2006-2011 and 2015-2019. She has reported extensively on socio economy, migrants, Xinjiang and cultural aspects of a changing China, some of the reporting is included in a retrospective collection of stories published by the Swedish Radio in 2019-2020, availabe for listening in the Swedish Radio app. Hanna Sahlberghas also headed further education for Chinese teachers in Swedish schools at Uppsala University. She has a bacherlor's degree in Chinese from Lund and Uppsala universities and a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Gothenburg. She is the editor of the anthology "Chinese moves in, a new language for schools in Sweden" at Uppsala university and the author of "The invisible wall, a report from my failed attempt at becoming Chinese", about the relative freedom among Chinese artists and journalists during the early 2000:s and the subsequent closing up of society and stricter views of Chineseness, published at Weyler förlag. She is a founder of and weekly contributor to the Swedish Radio China podcast "Radiokorrespondenterna Kina".