Jarmila Ptá.ková graduated from and earned her PhD at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, specializing in Chinese and Tibetan Studies. Her research focuses mainly on Chinese development policy and subsequent social and economic changes in China’s Tibetan areas, on China’s ethnic policy, and on the role of China’s minorities in the PRC’s cultural diplomacy. Currently, she is affiliated with the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.