Language: Chinese, English, Kiswahili

Email: xiaoqj@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Research Interests: African Studies, International Development, Sino-African Relations

Focus Areas: Eastern Africa, especially Tanzania

• Ph.D. in Political Science, Tsinghua University

• B.A. in Kiswahili Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University

• Visiting Fellow, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

• Visiting Scholar, University of Dar es Salaam

• Visiting Scholar, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana

• China's International Development Cooperation: Theory, Policy and Practices, Fall 2021

• Ethics in the Era of Globalization, Spring 2021

• China in the Developing World, Fall 2020

• Ethics in the Era of Globalization, Spring 2020

• “Political Rhetoric, Authority Competition and Regime Survival: COVID-19 Management and Party Politics in Tanzania,” The Journal of International Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2023, pp. 35-62. (with TANG Xiaoyang).

• “How China-Africa Infrastructure Cooperation is Achieved: Case Study on Uganda's Isimba Hydropower Project,” Area Observations, No. 1, 2022, pp. 44-57.

• “From Maritime Dispute to Diplomatic Crisis: An Analysis of the Recent Diplomatic Dispute between Somalia and Kenya,” Area Observations, No. 1, 2021, pp. 19-30.

• “COVID-19 in Africa: Development, Impacts and Responses,” Area Observations, No.1, 2020, pp. 73-86.

• “Humanity Exchanges and Cooperation between China and East African Countries,” Asian and African Studies (with WEI Yuanyuan), No. 2, 2016, pp. 99-116.

• “From A Priori Imagination to Language Practice: The Perception and Construction of 'Swahili Society',” in GAO Liangmin et al (eds.) The Globe as the Field: A Ten-Year Tour of Area Studies at Tsinghua University, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2022, pp. 144-161.

• “Reflections on the Challenges to the Development of Area Expertise (by Graham Furniss),” in Tim Niblock et al (eds.) Area Studies: New Disciplines, New Conceptions, Beijing: China Social Science Press, 2019, pp. 20-36.

• Research on High-quality Development of Investment Cooperation under New Situations to Promote the Belt and Road Construction, report adopted by the Department of Outward Investment and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Commerce, November 18, 2021. (with TANG Xiaoyang and TANG Xiyuan)

• U.S. Policy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa and Its Impact after World War II, supported by the Institute for International and Area Studies, Tsinghua University, March 2021 – Present.

• The China-Africa Joint Research and Exchange Program, supported by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Grant for “The Linkages between Chinese Infrastructure Development and Industrial and Agricultural Investment in Africa,” in Kampala, Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya, April 2019 – October 2020.

• Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center Program, supported by Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Grant for “Policy and Case Studies on Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Water Management in Priority Countries (Uganda, Gabon, Ghana),” in Kampala, April – November 2019.

• China-ASEAN (SCO and Lancang-Mekong) Environmental Cooperation Center Program, supported by Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Grant #20180511 for “Water Environment Studies in Priority African Countries (Kenya, Ethiopia),” in Nairobi, September 2018 – October 2018.

• China and Africa Research Program, supported by UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) & Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Grant for “Chinese FDI and Technology Transfer in Tanzania,” in Dar es Salaam, January 2018.