Africa
Awareness Week 2024! China
and Africa: Global Encounters in the Past, Present, and Future, with Liang Xu, School of International
Studies, Peking University. Thursday, April 18, 9:30-10:45am in Burnell 132A. Liang
will join us via Zoom.
Liang Xu is an
Assistant Professor at the Peking University School of International Studies
and Secretary-General of the Peking University Center for African Studies. His
research interests include Chinese diaspora in Africa, social and gender
history of Africa, the political economy of African development, and
international relations. Liang has a PhD in African history from Harvard
University (2010-2017). He received his Bachelor of Arts in International
Relations in 2005 from Peking University, where he also completed his first
doctorate in International Relations in 2010. Liang’s dissertation project at
Harvard examined the history of labor-intensive industrialization in South
Africa’s former border areas with a particular focus on ethnic Chinese garment
factories and Zulu women workers.
Sponsored by the African Studies
Program and the Asian Studies Program.